Diseases of the gall-bladder and bile-ducts : including gall-stones / By A. W. Mayo Robson...assisted by J. F. Dobson.

  • Robson, A. W. Mayo (Arthur William Mayo), 1853-1933.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Diseases of the gall-bladder and bile-ducts : including gall-stones / By A. W. Mayo Robson...assisted by J. F. Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Since the issue of the second edition, so much progress has occurred in the pathology of the diseases of the gall- bladder and bile-ducts, and such improvements in the technique of the various operations, that the whole book has had to be recast. This edition is therefore not merely a reproduction of the last, but almost a new work. Besides an entirely revised chapter on the Operative Technique of Gall-stones, it will be found that several new chapters have been added, many additional cases furnished, and the whole of the work has been brought up to date. In an appendix at the end of the volume will be found a more or less brief account of all the operations I have performed on the gall-bladder and bile-ducts, 539 in number, and an analysis will show how much more serious have been the later series of cases. The large number of choledochotomies for stones in the common duct and of operations for pancreatic disease will at once attract notice. Where so many different conditions have to be taken into consideration it is difficult to give a satisfactory classification of the cases operated on, but I hope the following account of the principal operations will give some idea of the results that have been obtained. Where the operation of cholecystotomy has been under- taken for simple diseases, such as gall-stones, in the absence of cancer and jaundice with suppurative or infective cholan- gitis, the mortality has onlv been 1*06 per cent. [v]