Table 3.

Diagnosis and treatment of cystobiliary fistulae.

Patient number	Clinical and diagnostic characteristics of the patients	Treatment of common bile duct
1	Evidence of obstructive jaundice with cystic contents in large CBD	Choledochoduodenostomy
2	Bile stained cystic liquid and visible orifice	Suturing orifice
3	Bile stained cystic liquid and visible orifice	Suturing orifice
4	Bile in cystic liquid	T-tube drainage
5	Evidence of obstructive jaundice, invisible orifice, normal caliber choledochus (postop biliary leakage)	Percutaneous drainage under US guidance post-operatively
6	Evidence of obstructive jaundice with cystic contents in a large CBD	Choledochoduodenostomy
7	Evidence of obstructive jaundice, hemobilia, enlargement of the CBD with cystic content	T-tube drainage
8	No suspicion of intrabiliary rupture	ERCP and sphincteroplasty