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Table 1 Causes of obstructive jaundice

From: Etiological spectrum and treatment outcome of Obstructive jaundice at a University teaching Hospital in northwestern Tanzania: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenges

Causes of obstructive jaundice

Number of patients

Percentage

Benign causes

48

41.4

Choledocholithiasis

30

62.5

Biliary strictures

12

25.0

Chronic pancreatitis

3

6.3

Amoebic hepatic abscess

1

2.1

Cause not identified

4

8.3

Malignant causes

68

58.6

Ca head pancreas

44

64.7

Cholangiocarcinoma

8

11.8

Ca gallbladder

6

8.8

Peri-ampulary Ca

6

8.8

Metastatic malignant lymph nodes in the portal hepatic

4

5.9