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Percutaneous drainage of malignant cysts

Clinical Radiology, 1984
Five patients who were suffering pain or pressure effects from malignant neoplastic cysts of the gastrointestinal or genito-urinary tract had percutaneous drainage guided by computed tomography. In four patients percutaneous drainage succeeded in relieving symptoms.
S J, Golding, J E, Husband
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Percutaneous Transhepatic Drainage

Archives of Surgery, 1983
We evaluated the risks and benefits of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTD) in 44 patients. Patients were divided into two groups, palliative and preoperative, each of which had 22 patients. Major complications included bacteremia, hemobilia, and liver abscess and occurred in ten patients (23%).
E C, Stambuk, H A, Pitt, S O, Pais, L L, Mann, J F, Lois, A S, Gomes   +5 more
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Percutaneous drainage of lung abscess

Lung, 1990
Most lung abscesses are successfully treated with antibiotics. However, occasional patients with lung abscesses that drain poorly, causing persistent fever and toxic symptoms, may require surgical intervention. Lobectomy is the most frequent surgical procedure.
C, Shim, G H, Santos, M, Zelefsky
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Percutaneous drainage techniques

Postgraduate Medicine, 1985
Percutaneous drainage techniques are widely used to relieve biliary and urinary obstructions as well as to evacuate abdominal abscesses. These drainage techniques are less expensive, safer, and in many cases more effective than comparable surgical procedures. Proper follow-up care of catheters is essential, however, to achieve maximum effectiveness.
R K, Kerlan, A C, Pogany, D R, Burke
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Percutaneous drainage of abdominal abscesses

American Journal of Roentgenology, 1984
Abdominal abscesses carry high morbidity and mortality unless properly drained. In recent years, percutaneous drainage has become an accepted alternative to surgery. A brief overview of diagnostic principles, selection of patients, percutaneous drainage catheters and technique, contraindications, and post-drainage follow-up is presented. In experienced
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Percutaneous Transhepatic Drainage

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1980
A two-step procedure for percutaneous transhepatic drainage (PTD) of the biliary tract was attempted on 101 patients with obstructive jaundice, 29 with benign and 71 with malignant lesions, and was successful in 100. With this procedure, marked clinical improvement, with reduction in levels of serum bilirubin, SGOT, SGPT and alkaline phosphatase, was ...
Y, Ishikawa, I, Oishi, M, Miyai, T, Kishimoto, S, Miyamura, T, Sagayama, T, Morigaki, T, Yamashita, N, Itoh   +8 more
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Percutaneous drainage

Current Problems in Cancer, 1986
C H, Carrasco, C, Charnsangavej, W R, Richli, S, Wallace   +3 more
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Percutaneous Biliary Drainage

Clinics in Gastroenterology, 1985
A C, Pogany, R K, Kerlan, E J, Ring
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Percutaneous abscess drainage

Seminars in Roentgenology, 1981
S G, Gerzof, R, Spira, A H, Robbins
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[Cholangitis and percutaneous biliary drainage].

La Radiologia medica, 1989
The binomial PTBD-cholangitis often stands under different and sometimes even opposite relations. Among its indications the procedure lists, the treatment of cholangitis which, on the other hand, may be itself a complication of biliary drainage. The present work proposes a critical review of cholangitis-PTBD correlations, from an ordinary clinical ...
R. A. Audisio, G. Cozzi, F. Bozzetti, M. Bellomi, L. F. Frigerio, A. Severini   +5 more
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