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Table 1 Management techniques of duodenal leaks and external duodenal fistulas

From: Complex duodenal fistulae: a surgical nightmare

Technique

1st author

Year

N

Success rate

Serosal patch

Kittrick

1965

1

1/1

Initial nonoperative and drainage

Garden

1988

24

22/24 (92%)

Transparietal endoscopic intubation

Bloch

1989

2

2/2

Initial nonoperative

Williams

1997

13

8/13 (62%)

Serosal patch

Curti

1997

4

4/4

Intubation and intraluminal irrigation

Parc

1999

49

32/49 (65%)

Gastrostomy tube fistula plug

Halttunen

2003

2

2/2

Rectus abdominis muscle flap

Chander

2004

6

6/6

Percutaneous transhepatic duodenal diversion

Zarzour

2008

6

5/6

Biliogastric diversion

Milias

2009

2

2/2

T-tube duodenocholangiostomy

Paluszkiewics

2010

12

12/12

Modified duodenal diverticulization

Cruz

2010

3

3/3

T-tube decompression

Gupta

2013

10

10/10

Percutaneous sinus tract drainage

Shen

2019

10

9/10

Prophylactic modified tube

Jung

2020

5

4/5