A ten-year study on non-surgical treatment of postoperative bile leakage.

Aim: To summarize systematically our ten-year experience in non-surgical treatment of postoperative bile leakage, and explore its methods and indications.

Methods: The clinical data of 57 patients with postoperative bile leakage treated non-surgically from January 1991 to December 2000 were reviewed retrospectively.

Results: The site of the leakage was mainly the disrupted or damaged fistulous tracts of T tube in 25 patients (43.