Toriumi D, Ruchim M, Goldberg M, Velasco J, Silver J, Berkowitz G, Atlas B
Department of Surgery, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60640.
Dig Dis Sci. 1989 Feb;34(2):315-9. doi: 10.1007/BF01536069.
A new nonoperative method for treating postoperative common bile duct leaks by endoscopic placement of a nasobiliary stent is described. Two patients were treated successfully by placing a nasobiliary stent above the point of bile leakage, acting to divert the flow of bile and to allow the fistula to close.