Treatment of hilar carcinoma by bile drainage combined with internal radiotherapy using 192iridium wire

Eighteen patients with a cholangiocarcinoma involving the hilum of the liver, and one patient with a carcinoma of the gall bladder causing obstruction of the common hepatic duct, have been treated with bile drainage using a U‐tube (8 patients) or a percutaneous transhepatic catheter (11 patients) fo...

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