Hepatic resection upon patients with jaundice.

Fourteen jaundiced patients with carcinoma at the bifurcation of the hepatic ducts, primary carcinoma of the liver and congenital cystic dilation of the intrahepatic bile ducts underwent hepatic resection without an operative mortality after the jaundice was relieved preoperatively. All patients did well, with jaundice and fever being absent postoperatively, although nine patients died of a recurrence of carcinoma in the follow-up period. It is now clear that the jaundiced patient become candidates for hepatic resection.