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Endoscopic Treatment of Biloma : Bilo-gastric drainage

Journal Volume 78 - 2015
Issue Fasc.3 - Letters
Author(s) Ahmet Tarik Eminler, Ayla Yildiz Savas, Bulent Yilmaz, Murat Akgul, Mustafa Ihsan Uslan, Aydin Seref Koksal, Erkan Parlak
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(1) Department of Gastroenterology, Sakarya University, Faculty of Medicine ; (2) Department of Gastroenterology, Balikesir State Hospital ; (3) Department of Gastroenterology, Bolu State Hospital ; (4) Department of General Surgery, Sakarya Yenikent State Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey.

Bile tree injury and biliary leakage are common and serious complications after cholecystectomy, cyst hyda- tid surgery, pancreaticoduodenectomy, and hepatic seg- mentectomy. Bilomas are extrabiliary encapsulated cys- tic collections of bile, most often in perihepatic space but also elsewhere in the abdomen (1). Percutaneous or sur- gical drainage is the standart of care (2). Herein we pres- ent a novel transgastric endoscopic drainage of a biloma.

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