Surgical Treatment of Obstructive Jaundice Caused by Bile Duct Strictures after Hepatic Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization / 华中科技大学学报(医学版)

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Objective To examine the surgical treatments for obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct strictures after hepat-ic transcatheter arterial chemoembolization(TACE).Methods Clinical data were retrospectively analyzed of 9 patients who de-veloped bile duct strictures among 229 patients after TACE between June 1994 and March 2011 in People’s Hospital of Zhe-jiang Provincial and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University.There were 6 cases of primary liver cancer,and 3 ca-ses of metastatic liver cancer.Obstructive jaundice occurred 5 to 16 months after TACE treatment.The median time was 8 months.Results All the nine patients with bile duct strictures suffered different degrees of obstructive j aundice,which was cured after surgical operations or PTC + stenting in 7 patients and significantly relieved by percutaneous transhepatic cholangic drainage(PTCD)in 2 ones.Two patients with obstructive j aundice after TACE for primary liver cancer were followed up for 3 years,and no recurrence of hepatic carcinoma and bile duct obstruction was found.The other 7 patients were followed up for 3 to 13 months,and they all died of deterioration of primary disease.Conclusion Patients with obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct strictures after TACE benefit from surgical operations or intervention treatment.Different surgical strategies are selected based on the characteristics of primary disease,the site and extent of bile duct stricture.