Current status and progress on preoperative biliary drainage of hilar cholangiocarcinoma / 中华肝胆外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) is an important part of preoperative management of patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma which could reduce serum total bilirubin,remove jaundice,improve liver function,and reduce the mortality and morbidity.Although PBD is widely used in biliary surgery now,there are still several controversial issues in clinical applications about the indication of PBD,the best way of PBD,implantation metastasis of PBD and so on.With the development of medical image and surgical technology,we had a better understanding of PBD now.This review summarizes the recent scenario and current advancement about the above-mentioned controversy.