Clinical Study
Results of Medium Seventeen Years’ Follow-Up after Laparoscopic Choledochotomy for Ductal Stones
Table 1
Results of medium 17 years’ follow-up (12.6–22.7 years).
| | Patients, | 121 |
| | Unrelated death, (%) | 61 (50.4) | | Lost at follow-up, (%) | 14 (11.5) | | Available patients’ data, (%) | 46 (38.1) |
| | Symptomatic patients, (%) | 3 (6.5) | | Cholangitis | 1 (2.7) | | Dyspepsia | 2 (5.4) |
| | Biochemical biliary stasis, (%) | 1 (2.1) |
| | US evaluation, (%) | 46 (100) | | Stones | 0 (0) | | Stricture | 0 (0) |
| | MRI, (%) | 1 (2.1) | | Stones | 1 (2.1) | | Ductal dilatation | 1 (2.1) |
| | Ductal stones’ recurrence, (%) | 1 (2.1) |
| | ERCP, (%) | 1 (2.1) |
| | CBD stricture, (%) | 0 (0) |
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