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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2016 Jul 6;160(3):691–698. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.05.021

Table 3.

Radiographic imaging done in patients with biliary-enteric anastomotic stricture versus those without a stricture at least three months following the index operation (N=403)

No Stricture N=2971 Stricture N=403 p-value
Imaging Frequency N (%) Imaging Frequency N (%)
Imaging Modality
 Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography (PTC) 0 (0%) 209 (51.9%) <0.0001
 CT-scan 2071 (69.7%) 375 (93.1%) <0.0001
 Ultrasound 974 (32.8%) 228 (56.6%) <0.0001
 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 214 (7.2%) 75 (18.6%) <0.0001
 Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) 40 (1.4%) 1166 (28.8%) <0.0001