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Abstract
Immediate gram stains were performed on gallbladder bile aspirated at the start of
an operation for biliary disease in 191 consecutive patients undergoing elective biliary
surgery. The results of the gram stains were telephoned to the operating theater within
20 minutes of collection. The over-all accuracy rate of the telephone gram stain reports
compared with the subsequent bile cultures was 77 percent. The incidence of false-positive
results was 12 percent, and false-negative results were recorded in 7 percent. The
organism was identified wrongly by the gram stain in 4 percent of patients. These
results have improved, with experience and the over-all accuracy rate of gram stains
on bile over the last 6 months have been 87 percent.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
October 5,
1976
Footnotes
☆Presented at the Tripartite Meeting, Philadelphia, Pa., 1976.
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© 1977 Published by Elsevier Inc.
