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The occurrence of retained/recurrent calculi after primary CBDE followed by temporary T-tube decompression, have remained at rates varying from 5.4% to 20.9% over the last 10 years in spite of sophisticated pre and intraoperative imaging techniques. It is postulated that a functional obstruction, due to dysmotility of the SO, lies behind most stone-containing ducts. Thus it seems logical to us that a permanent "fenestration" should be the management of most such ducts. We prospectively followed-up, for one to 10 years, two groups of patients submitted to primary CBDE aiming to assess the short and long-term results of two different surgical approaches to duct lithiasis. In one (Group A) 162 CBDE's were performed, out of 680 CHE's (24%), with a "positivity" of 68% and in the other (Group B) 80 CBDE's, out of 438 CHE's (18%), with a "positivity" of 70%. In Group A a T-tube decompression was used in 79(49%) and a definitive drainage in 83(51%) whereas in Group B the T-tube was employed in only 3(4%) and some form of permanent "fenestration" in 77(96%). There were no significant differences between the operative mortality rates, which were 2.5% in Group A (1 death post T-tube, 3 post CDJ) and 1.3% in Group B (1 death post CDD). The long-term results, though, were significantly worse among patients of Group A whose ducts were temporarily decompressed: 10/79 (12.7%) required further aggressive interventional therapy for retained/recurrent stones while only 3.8% (3/80) in Group A and 1.3% (1/76) in Group B required revisional surgery for bilio-digestive anastomotic complications with cholangitis. It is concluded that it is against the long-term efficiency of the approach utilized in Group B that the new laparoscopic techniques should be compared.

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One-stage subtotal colectomy of an acutely obstructed left colon would improve quality of life while shortening the length of hospitalization. Prohibitive mortality rates, however, are ascribed to such an approach. Analyzing the Senior Author's experience we compared the one-stage approach versus the multi-stage resections concerning operative mortality and morbidity rates and the duration of hospitalization. Forty-nine of 291 (17%) large bowel cancers presented acute left-sided obstruction requiring emergency surgery. Colostomy alone was performed in 18 (37%), multi-stage colectomy in 20 (41%, Group A) and one-stage subtotal colectomy in 11 (22%, Group B, all of them after 1979), the years under scrutiny being from 1973 through Sept. 1990. Both groups were comparable in age and sex distribution, TNM staging and ASA classification. Operative mortality and morbidity rates were 10% and 30% in Group A, 9% and 18% in Group B, respectively. The average length of hospitalization was 21.25 days (14-30) in Group A, 9.18 days (7-14) in Group B. Whenever an experienced surgical team is available and in the absence of contra-indications (local factors precluding a swift dissection, hemodynamic instability, gangrenous bowel) a one-stage subtotal colectomy, taking advantage of a better healing ileo-sigmoid or ileo-rectal anastomosis, carries acceptable mortality and morbidity rates while enhancing the quality of life and shortening the length of hospitalization. It should be considered the choice procedure, provided selection requirements and technical demands are met. An evaluation of the Senior Author's team experience (1973-90) in the management of acutely obstructing left colon cancer (49/291 or 17%) provides information on multi-stage resections and one-stage subtotal colectomy (Group A and B) as regards operative mortality (10% in Group A, 9% in Group B) as well as length of hospitalization (21 days in Group A, 9 days in Group B).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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The experience of the senior author in the management of biliary tract lithiasis and/or associated pathology is analyzed, retrospectively until 1976 and prospectively from then on, in an attempt to ascertain the most efficient manner of handling a duct requiring surgical exploration. Primary surgery was done on 245 patients, while 22 common bile duct reoperations were carried out on 20 patients. In the primary surgery group, 177 simple cholecystectomies were undertaken, and an indication for duct exploration was present in the other 68. Out of 90 common bile duct explorations, 68 primary ones plus 22 reoperations, two operative deaths occurred (one in each group). Fifteen patients had a choledocholithotomy with temporary T-tube decompression, with "normal' postexploratory and predischarge tube cholangiograms. Six of these (40%) required reoperation (recurrent stones in three, residual calculus in two, stenotic papilla in one). Of 70 ducts definitively drained (60 choledochoduodenostomies, nine sphincteroplasties, one Y-loop hepaticojejunostomy) only one (1.4%) of the patients who had a sphincteroplasty has had an episode of jaundice and cholangitis, a highly significant difference (p = 0.001). This experience suggests that a correct biliary fenestration, permanently decompressing the biliary tree, performed during the initial operation will avoid many unnecessary hospital admissions and should, therefore, be seen as the procedure of choice in the overwhelming majority of situations when a pathological common bile duct is encountered.

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