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Query: UMLS:C0033774 (
pruritus
)
14,546
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Percutaneous transhepatic drainage of the bile duct (PTCD) is a method that has few complications and can successfully relieve an obstructive jaundice. As a palliative drainage in malignancies of the liver and the porta of the liver it reduces the jaundice and prevents the accompanying troublesome
pruritus
, thus prolonging life. It reduces postoperative lethality and complications by reducing the jaundice preoperatively.
Suppurative cholangitis
with bile duct obstruction is quickly relieved by administration of antibiotics into the drainage.
...
PMID:[Indications and results of percutaneous transhepatic bile-duct drainage]. 8 98
