Total Fluoroscopy Time Reduction During Ultrasound- and Fluoroscopy-Guided Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage Procedure: Importance of Adjusting the Puncture Angle

21 November 2021 : Clinical Research

Aleksandar N. Filipović^12ABDEF*, Dragan Mašulović^12ACDEF, Miloš Zakošek^1BCDF, Tamara Filipović^23ACDEF, Danijel Galun^24ABDEF

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.933889

Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e933889

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Table 3 The association of total fluoroscopy time and demographic and clinical characteristics.

	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	p
	B	SE	Beta	p
(Constant)	−66.064	53.079		0.216
Gender	12.277	13.445	0.050	0.363
Age	1.298	0.604	0.118	0.034
Peripheral bile duct diameter	2.499	5.785	0.031	0.666
Central bile duct diameter	−2.640	3.014	−0.063	0.383
Tortuosity	−15.376	17.473	−0.051	0.381
Metastases	28.140	22.584	0.068	0.215
Multiple strictures	201.318	20.796	0.672	0.000
Angle >30°	57.415	16.142	0.232	0.001
Adjusted R=0.661; B – regression coefficient; SE – standard error.

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