Bile leak after hepatectomy: Predictive factors of spontaneous healing

Bile leakage after hepatectomy usually has spontaneous healing, but some patients require interventional procedures. To identify early predictive factors of conservative management failure.This study focused on patients with bile leak after hepatectomy without extrahepatic biliary resection from 1996 through 2006.Bile leakage occurred in 34 of 593 patients (5.7%). Conservative management was successful in 26 patients (76.5%). At univariate...