Duodenal appears to be preferred over jejunal anastomosis for biliary reconstruction, as it is safe and simple, with low rates of leak, stricture, cholangitis, and bile gastritis, according to a ...

Endosonography-guided biliary drainage is a new method that enables internal drainage of bile. A research group performed histological examination of and around the fistula created by ESBD in a ...

THE term pancreaticoduodenal cancer was introduced by Child 1 to characterize a group of malignant tumors that arise in the region of the ampulla of Vater. It therefore includes tumors of the head of ...

Bile Bile ducts are thin tubes that connect the liver with the small intestine. These ducts transport bile (digestive fluid) formed in the liver and the gallbladder ...

We endoscopically resected the lesion, and histopathology showed a duodenal duplication cyst (Appendix 1, Figure C). A repeat endoscopy after 3 months showed that the orifices of the bile duct and ...

Lurking half-hidden behind the lower edge of the liver, the pear-shaped gall bladder serves as a storehouse for an essential substance—the thick, greenish bile (or gall) that the liver manufactures to ...

When Attorney General John Ashcroft checked into the hospital recently, he was suffering from an affliction that affects as many as one in 12 Americans: gallstones. In Ashcroft's case, the matter had ...

A 35-year-old chronic alcoholic patient presented with abdominal pain and distention and vomiting for 4 days. He had peritoneal signs, his abdominal x-rays showed no pneumoperitoneum, and his ...

CORTISONE and ACTH have been shown to cause a reduction in serum bilirubin in acute hepatitis. 1–4,5,6 Although this action has been more variable in patients with chronic liver disease, 7–9 and in ...

The role of endosonography (ES) in digestive diseases is expanding gradually from diagnostic applications to therapeutic ones. The feasibility of ES-guided cholangiopancreatography was first reported ...