There were no statistically significant differences between the overall mortality rates of the groups studied. One patient with cholangitis died in spite of successful drainage of the biliary tract. Another patient who suffered death had metastatic pancreatic cancer. The other three cases of mortality had metastatic cholangiocarcinomas.
En la mortalidad global no hubo diferencias significativas entre los grupos de estudio; una en un paciente con colangitis a pesar de un drenaje exitoso de la vía biliar, otra en un paciente con cáncer metastásico de páncreas, y las otras tres en pacientes con colangiocarcinomas metastásicos.