UnknownPhase 3

Preoperative Biliary Drainage for the Lower Malignant Obstructive Jaundice

136 participantsStarted 2012-09

Plain-language summary

Patients with the lower malignant obstructive jaundice planned to do the pancreaticoduodenectomy, receiving preoperative biliary drainage or early surgery (without preoperative biliary drainage), both groups has the similar surgical morbidity, no statistics significance.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 65 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with the lower malignant obstructive jaundice * Total bilirubin: 150-350 umol/L Exclusion Criteria: * age less than 18 * emergency operation * biliary tract stent placed * past history of operation on pancreas * intraoperative unresectable tumor with pancreaticoduodenectomy * unresectable tumor or potential resectable tumor with pancreaticoduodenectomy

What they're measuring

the difference in postoperative morbidity

Timeframe: 12 weeks postoperation

Trial details

NCT IDNCT01744938

SponsorTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2016-11

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