1.   Postoperative bile leakage and benign bile duct stricturing after open cholecystectomy can be diagnosed safely and effectively with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

2.   Because of some peroperative bile leakage, a subhepatic drain was positioned and antibiotics were given for five days.

3.   Peroperatively bile leakage was encountered and the procedure was converted to a laparotomy.

4.   After five days, an ERCP elsewhere showed bile leakage from the cystic duct stump and a small endoscopic sphincterotomy was performed, followed by stent insertion.

5.   In this study, all three patients with bile leakage were also successfully treated endoscopically.

6.   Post was suffering an infection, a blood clot and a bile leakage in her abdomen.