From the Section of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis. Address reprint requests to Dr. Strasberg at Box 8109, 660 Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110, or at [email protected].
Dr. Strasberg reports receiving consulting fees from Covidien and grant support from Tissue Link and serving as an expert witness in cases related to biliary injuries. No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
I thank Dr. Joseph Solomkin, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Dr. Victoria Fraser, Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, for their advice regarding the selection of antibiotics; and Drs. Barry Siegel and William Middleton of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, for providing the hepatobiliary and ultrasonographic scans from which the figures were produced.
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