Table 1.
Characteristics of patients undergoing percutaneous procedures including percutaneous cholangiography (PTC) and percutaneous-endoscopic rendezvous procedures (PTE-RVs). Median and interquartile ranges are reported for continuous variables, and frequencies and percentages are reported for categorical variables.
| Variables | Patients (n = 244) |
|---|---|
| Age (years) | 67 (58–76) |
| Female (%) | 89 (36.3) |
| Male (%) | 155 (63.5) |
| Number of percutaneous procedures | 553 |
| PTE-RV | 163 (29.5) |
| PTC | 390 (70.5) |
| Main diagnosis (%) | |
| Malignancy | 174 (71.3) |
| Metastatic disease | 85 (48.9) |
| Entities of carcinoma | |
| Pancreas-carcinoma | 57 (32.8) |
| Cholangio-carcinoma | 33 (19.0) |
| Gastric-carcinoma | 31 (17.8) |
| Metastatic colorectal-carcinoma | 16 (9.2) |
| Papillary-carcinoma | 7 (4.0) |
| Gallbladder-carcinoma | 5 (2.9) |
| Other carcinoma (local or metastatic) | 25 (14.3) |
| Benignancy | 70 (28.6) |
| Entities of benignancy | |
| Cholelithiasis | 32 (45.7) |
| Postoperative biliodigestive anastomotic stricture | 22 (31.4) |
| Acute and chronic pancreatitis | 5 (7.1) |
| Sclerosing cholangitis | 4 (5.7) |
| Postoperative biliary leakage | 3 (4.3) |
| Anastomotic stricture and choledocholithiasis | 3 (4.3) |
| Juxtapapillary diverticulum | 1 (1.4) |
| Postoperative changes of bowel anatomy (%) | |
| Patients with an altered postoperative bowel anatomy | 124 (50.8) |
| Billroth operation II | 36 (29.0) |
| Gastrectomy | 28 (22.6) |
| Biliodigestive anastomosis | 20 (16.1) |
| Whipple and Traverso-Longmire operation | 14 (11.3) |
| Gastroenteric anastomosis | 11 (8.9) |
| Others | 15 (12.1) |