Liaqat Ali Deokah, Balakh Sher Zaman, Abeera Liaqat, Fakhar-uz Zaman, Rizwan Ullah, Javaid Sajjad Hashmi.
Surgical management of extrahepatic biliary obstruction.
J Allama Iqbal Med Coll Nov ;19(4):995-7.

Objective: The objectives of this study are to evaluate the surgical management, both definitive and palliative, in selected patients with biliary obstruction. Methods: 40 cases of biliary obstruction were included. A convenient sampling technique was followed. Descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage, averages, were computed for data presentation. Results: We selected 40 patients with features of extra Hepatic Biliary Obstruction out of these 40, 17 (%) patients sufferance benign disease, while those having malignant disease were the most common cause of Extra/ Hepatic obstruction was stone in CBD 16% patients. Conclusion: Malignant causes of jaundice are more common than benign causes. Secondary stones are the commonest cause of non malignant biliary obstruction. Jaundice is more severe and associated with pruritus and more intolerable and persistent in malignancy. Surgical procedures are done as curative/palliative measures in Obstructive jaundice.

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