Indication and Procedure for Treatment of Hepatolithiasis
Authors:
- Hironobu OnishiHOHironobu Onishi
- Masaji TaniMTMasaji Tani
- Hiroyuki KinoshitaHKHiroyuki Kinoshita
- Masaki UenoMUMasaki Ueno
- Hiroki YamaueHYHiroki Yamaue
Open Access
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 137 (2) , 149-153
Abstract
HEPATOLITHIASIS is a common disease in Southeast Asia, and the relative incidence of hepatolithiasis is 20% in China and Taiwan.1,2 However, our study3 in Japan investigated 105 062 patients with cholelithiasis between 1989 and 1992 and found that 2353 of these patients (2.2%) had hepatolithiasis. In Japan, the number of patients with hepatolithiasis also is lower compared with previous nationwide statistics.3 This decrease could be attributable to the fact that as the number of patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy increased, the size of the patient pool increased, thus lowering the relative incidence of choledocholithiasis and hepatolithiasis.4Keywords
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