Usefulness of the "rendezvous" technique in living related right liver donors with postoperative biliary leakage from bile duct anastomosis.

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol

Department of Radiology, Istituto Mediterraneo Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, Via Tricomi 1, 90127, Palermo, Italy.

Published: January 2009

This is a report on two cases of large bile leak following right hepatectomy performed for living related liver transplantation, originating from the stump of the ligated right bile duct, and treated with the placement of large percutaneous biliary catheters through a combined percutaneous transhepatic and endoscopic approach (rendezvous technique).

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