Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 15 (21), 9391-9394
IntroductionPercutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage is becoming more and more useful as a palliative treatment for patients with malignant obstructive jaundice, which could not only significantly reduce bilirubin levels, improve liver function and prolong survival time, but also be used as a preoperative drainage, provide the conditions for subsequent treatment (Boursier et al., 2009;Herzog et al., 2012;Kaya et al., 2012;Zhu et al., 2012). In our center, if the guide wire could pass through the occlusion and into the duodenum, we prefer to use internal-external drainage, while the occlusion is not crossed, external drainage biliary catheter is placed. We think that internal-external drainage in the treatment of malignant obstructive jaundice not only could lead bile flow into intestine, maintain the physical channel of bile drainage, also decline bilirubin level quickly which is beneficial to the recovery of liver function and reduce the gastrointestinal complications caused by lack of bile. In order to evaluate the efficacy of this kind of treatment, we collect patients with malignant obstructive jaundice receiving this procedure in 2008-2013.