Table IV. Three cohort studies evaluating combined laparoscopic biliary and gastric bypass.

	Rhodes et al. 1995 56	Rothlin et al. 1999 57	Kuriansky et al. 2000 58
Study	n=16	n=14	n=12
Successful laparoscopic treatment (%)	94	100	100
Mean operating time (min)	75	129	89
Morbidity (%)	12.5	7	33
Mortality (%)	0	0	8
Mean hospital stay (days)	4	9.4	6.4
Recurrent jaundice and/or cholangitis (%)	0	NS	NS
Gastric outlet obstruction (%)	NS	NS	17
Survival (days)	201	NS	85

NS, not stated in the article.