Endoscopic biliary drainage outperforms conventional external drainage in pediatric choledochal cyst with severe cholangitis: a retrospective cohort study
In children with CC complicated by severe cholangitis, EBD provides significant advantages over CED. It is less invasive, which leads to faster recovery times and lower complication rates, making it the preferred transitional treatment before definitive surgery.
Authors
- Hongxi Guo
- Hongqiang Bian
- Jingjing Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-0074)
- Jun Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3261-5774)
- Yang Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5805-7278)
- Juan Luo
- Xufei Duan
- Xin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6229-1945)
Institutions
- Wuhan Children's Hospital (CN)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Pediatrics
- Published
- 2025-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2025.1648834
- Primary Topic
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00