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A 40 year old patient has undergone an open cholecystectomy. The procedure was repoed as uneventful by the operating surgeon. She has 100 ml of bile output from the drain kept in the gallbladder bed on the first post operative day. On examination she is afebrile and anicteric. The abdomen is soft and bowel sounds are normally heard. As an attending physician, what should be your best possible advice?

AOrder an urgent endoscopic retrograde cholangiography and biliary stenting
BUrgent laparotomy
COrder an urgent hepatic imino diacetic acid scintigraphy (HIDA)
DClinical observation
Surgery
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