THE DETERMINATION OF BILIARY TRACT INFECTION WITH THE ENCAPSULATED DUODENAL TUBE
Authors: John Russell Twiss, R. Franklin Carter, Richard Hotz
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1940)

Article1 May 1940THE DETERMINATION OF BILIARY TRACT INFECTION WITH THE ENCAPSULATED DUODENAL TUBEJOHN RUSSELL TWISS, M.D., F.A.C.P., R. FRANKLIN CARTER, M.D., RICHARD HOTZ, M.D.JOHN RUSSELL TWISS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, R. FRANKLIN CARTER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, RICHARD HOTZ, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-13-11-2104 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThat it is now possible to determine biliary tract infection with considerable accuracy, without operation, has been proved by the correlated pre-operative and operative bacteriological findings in a series of 120 patients with chronic biliary tract disease. In each case a pre-operative duodenal drainage was performed under sterile precautions with the encapsulated Twiss duodenal tube,1and the bacteriological findings of the duodenal bile were compared with those of specimens obtained from the biliary tract at operation. The findings were identical in such a large proportion of the cases studied that the use of this procedure as a diagnostic measure seems...Bibliography1. TWISS JR: A new type of duodenal tube tip, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1933, clxxxv, 107. Google Scholar2. WESTPHAL K: Muskelfunction, Nervensystem, und Pathologie der Gallenwege, Ztschr. f. klin. Med., 1923, xcvi, 22. Die Bewegungs und Resorptionsstörungen an den Gallenwegen und ihre Gefahren, Verhandl. d. deutsch. Gesselsch. f. inn. Med. Kong., 1932, xliv, 354. Gallenwegsfunktion und Gallensteinleiden, Ztschr. f. klin. Med., 1930, cxv, 99. Google Scholar3. IVYSANDBLOOM ACA: Biliary dyskinesia, ANN. INT. MED., 1934, viii, 115. Google Scholar4. 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