Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US) or ...

A Taiwan study found that large balloon dilation alone without the use of sphincterotomy to treat large common bile duct stones met safety and efficacy requirements, according to a report in BMC ...

The standard of care for the extraction of bile duct stones, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with sphincterotomy, is associated with a risk of short-term mortality. Endoscopic ...

EPBD for stone extraction should be avoided in routine clinical practice; if used for patients with coagulopathy or altered surgical anatomy, care should be taken to avoid contrast injection into the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A: The common complaint of right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain and impaired liver function tests (LFTs) could ...

IN recent years, cholecystectomy has been performed in an increasing number of patients. As a result, two serious complications of biliary-tract surgery have occurred with increasing frequency. The ...

THE present report concerns a patient who was successfully treated for cystic dilatation of the common bile duct associated with congenital absence of the gall bladder. Both these anomalies are rare, ...

Distal cholangiocarcinomas are rare, but clinicians can use a variety of imaging to diagnose it. A new case report of a patient with distal cholangiocarcinoma highlights how imaging and histopathology ...

Researchers report that endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) are 99.1 percent accurate in diagnosing pancreatic neoplasms (abnormal growths or ...

Hong Joo Kim; Kyu Taek Lee; Seung Hoon Kim; Jong Kyun Lee; Jae Hoon Lim; Seung Woon Paik; Jong Chul Rhee Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is usually evident on cholangiogram, but the intrahepatic tumor ...