Patients and methods
anastomotic stricture, malignant diseases
RECURRENCE, MALIGNANT DISEASE
This study is a prospective randomized trial comparing patients undergoing hepaticojejunostomy with or without gastric access loop. All patients who were eligible for RYHJ reconstruction at the General surgery department, Assiut University Hospitals between September 2017 and December 2019 have been recruited. Excluded from the study were patients with malignant diseases due to poor patient survival and difficulty to differentiate between anastomotic stricture and local anastomotic recurrence [