Does the placement of a cystic duct tube after a hepatic resection help reduce the incidence of post-operative bile leak?
The usefulness of the C tube in preventing post-hepatectomy bile leak could not be confirmed; however, both bile leak requiring clinical management and long hospitalization after a major hepatectomy could be reduced with C tube use.
The subset of HLA-DR+/CD8- lymphocytes powerfully predicts the survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.