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 ...

A minority of cases of biliary atresia may be caused by defects in morphogenesis of the bile ducts. Potential etiologies for the more common perinatal form of biliary atresia include viral infections, ...

Overall mortality was low (n = 7), and the frequency of various complications varied by the type of procedure used to clear stones from the biliary tract. With respect to avoiding postoperative ...

About 8,000 people are diagnosed with bile duct cancer each year. But the actual number of cases is likely to be higher, because these cancers can be hard to diagnose, and some might be misclassified ...

AS a result of Dr. Frank H. Lahey's 1–3 early and continued interest in the repair of bile-duct strictures, this clinic has had a large experience with the management of patients referred here with ...

Background. A 72-year-old hypertensive woman presented with a 2-month history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain. She had a 15-day history of jaundice, fever with chills and shivering, nausea, ...

Extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma occasionally presents with intraepithelial spread for a considerable area around the main tumor. In this study, we compared clinicopathological features of ...

Cambridge scientists have developed a new method for growing and transplanting artificial bile ducts that could in future be used to help treat liver disease in children, reducing the need for liver ...

Cancer in the bile ducts may not present with any symptoms in the initial stage. The bile duct is found in the inner part of the body and, therefore, it is difficult to detect early tumors during ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) usually develops in the bile duct system that arises from the liver and bile ducts and ends at the small intestine. Cancer that develops in the section of bile ...