## Summary During a 14-year period ending in June 1979, 342 patients with calculous biliary disease underwent choledochoduo-denostomy either as a primary procedure or during reoperation. Eighty per cent of the patients were aged 50 years or more. Follow-up was either by personal interview and physi
Biliary-tract disease in malaya
โ Scribed by M. S. King
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 432 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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โฆ Synopsis
A review was carried out of the pattern of biliarytract disease in Malaya where the population consists of three major groups: Malays, Chinese, and Indians. The review was based upon (a) a study of the comparative incidence of operations for biliary disease in the six large general hospitals serving West Malaya, and (b) a more detailed study of IZO consecutive patients undergoing operations on the biliary tract in the University Hospital, Kuala
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