Assessment of the Percutaneous Procedures Results
Ninety-seven LLDs with biliary complications underwent one to four
sessions of interventional radiology assisted percutaneous procedures.
Eighty-five of them underwent transhepatic or transperitoneal
perihepatic bilioma drainage and no any drainage catheter was placed in
18 of these patients because the aspirated fluid was serous/purulent
rather than bilious. Median time from LDH to percutaneous bilioma
drainage was 21 days (min-max: 6-317 days). Median time from LDH to PTBD
catheter insertion was 33 days (min-max: 24-78 days). Among 12 LLDs had
a PTBD catheter insertion, ten underwent PTBD catheter assisted HJ, of
which 7 had external and 3 had internal-external PTBD catheters.