Evaluation of the White Test for the Intraoperative Detection of Bile Leakage

Table 2

Comparison between the conventional test and the White test for the detection of bile leakage.

Type of liver; resection	Number of bile leakage sites (mean ± SD)		P value*
	Conventional test	White test
Minor (12 cases)	0.4±0.79	1.9±1.82	0.016
Major (18 cases)	0.3±0.46	1.4±1.69	0.002
Total (30 cases)	0.3±0.60	1.6±1.70	<0.001

*Wilcoxon signed-rank test.