A critical comment on the question of papillotomy en principe is made, based on results from more than 7000 gallbladder operations and over 500 papillotomies, performed at the surgical departments of the municipal hospitals in Braunschweig and Lüneburg. In principle, too few papillotomies are carried out in many hospitals. The duration and seriousness of the cholecystitis is to a large degree responsible for the frequency of the formation of a papilla stenosis. Out of 232 multiple gallbladder operations performed at the Braunschweiger Hospital, 130 were necessary because of an incorrect opinion about the indication at the time of the first operation, in most cases due to an overlooked stenosis of the papilla.
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