Two patients with cancer of the right colon fistulized in duodenum underwent simultaneous right hemicolectomies and cephalic duodenopancreatectomies. There were no important post-operative complications and they are both alive eleven and ten years after surgery. In another case a piece of duodenum adherent to colon was resected and the duodenum was transversally sutured, segments IV and V of the liver were also resected because of a infiltration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical description of biliary diseases are slightly over a century old. At the end of last century and beginning of the present one, laws were established and clinical syndromes were described; these are still valid at present. Some modern techniques such as ultrasonography confirmed the importance of the Courvoisier-Terrier law.
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