Late biliary complications in human alveolar echinococcosis are associated with high mortality

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World J Gastroenterol. May 21, 2014; 20(19): 5881-5888
Published online May 21, 2014. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i19.5881

Table 4 Previous surgery and biliary complications

	Previous surgery (n = 13)	No previous surgery (n = 13)
Late cholangitis	8	6
Sclerosing-cholangitis like lesions	2	6
Hepatolithiasis	3	2
Affection of big bile ducts	3	4
Secondary biliary cirrhosis	4	3
Postoperative biliary stenosis (after hepaticojejunostomy)	1	0
Biliary fistula	2	0

Distribution of various late biliary complications among patients with and without previous surgery. None of these differences reached statistical significance (Fisher’s exact test).

Citation: Frei P, Misselwitz B, Prakash MK, Schoepfer AM, Prinz Vavricka BM, Müllhaupt B, Fried M, Lehmann K, Ammann RW, Vavricka SR. Late biliary complications in human alveolar echinococcosis are associated with high mortality. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20(19): 5881-5888
URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v20/i19/5881.htm
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v20.i19.5881