Clinical Study
Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangitis: Disease Characteristics and Patterns of Recurrence
Table 2
Comparison of the initial and long-term failures of different treatment modalities.
| Treatment modality | Initial failure | Long-term failure |
| ERCP guided | 9/25 (36.0%) | 17/25 (68.0%) | PTC guided | 1/6 (16.7%) | 1/6 (16.7%) | Non-operative treatment | 10/31 (32.2%)* | 18/31 (58.1%)† | Operative biliary drainage only | 3/30 (10.0%) | 7/30 (23.3%) | Hepatectomy only | 0/8 | 0/8 | Hepatectomy and operative biliary drainage | 2/11 (18.2%) | 3/11 (27.3%) | Operative treatment | 5/49 (10.2%)* | 10/49 (20.4%)† |
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, †; Fischer’s exact test.
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