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Operative fluoroscopy and cholangiography. The use of modern radiologic technics during surgery. 1978

G Berci, and J M Shore, and J A Hamlin, and L Morgenstern

Operative cholangiography as currently performed in many hospitals in the United States may be a cumbersome procedure yielding less than optimal information. For maximal accuracy and diagnostic yield, operative radiographic examination of the biliary tract should include fluoroscopic observation and aimed spot films. The advantages gained by using modern radiologic equipment and technics are increased image clarity, increased capability for functional assessment of a dynamic system, increased efficiency, and decreased radiation hazard. In a series of 100 patients undergoing operative cholangiography by our technic, only one retained stone was demonstrated by postoperative studies. Five anomalies of the ductal system were easily identified and possible injury to the anomalous ducts averted. Considering the morbidity and mortality attendant upon inadequate or inappropriate biliary tract operations, investment in the sophisticated equipment necessary for optimal operative radiography is small indeed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D002758	Cholangiography	An imaging test of the BILIARY TRACT in which a contrast dye (RADIOPAQUE MEDIA) is injected into the BILE DUCT and x-ray pictures are taken.	Cholangiographies
D003365	Costs and Cost Analysis	Absolute, comparative, or differential costs pertaining to services, institutions, resources, etc., or the analysis and study of these costs.	Affordability,Analysis, Cost,Cost,Cost Analysis,Cost Comparison,Cost Measures,Cost-Minimization Analysis,Costs and Cost Analyses,Costs, Cost Analysis,Pricing,Affordabilities,Analyses, Cost,Analyses, Cost-Minimization,Analysis, Cost-Minimization,Comparison, Cost,Comparisons, Cost,Cost Analyses,Cost Comparisons,Cost Measure,Cost Minimization Analysis,Cost, Cost Analysis,Cost-Minimization Analyses,Costs,Measure, Cost,Measures, Cost
D005471	Fluoroscopy	Production of an image when x-rays strike a fluorescent screen.	Fluoroscopies
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001662	Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures	Any surgical procedure performed on the biliary tract.	Biliary Surgical Procedures,Biliary Surgical Procedure,Biliary Tract Surgical Procedure,Surgical Procedure, Biliary,Surgical Procedure, Biliary Tract,Surgical Procedures, Biliary,Surgical Procedures, Biliary Tract
D013690	Television	The transmission and reproduction of transient images of fixed or moving objects. An electronic system of transmitting such images together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound. (From Webster, 3rd ed)	Televisions