A gallbladder attack can cause intense pain, nausea, and digestive distress, often occurring after fatty meals. While some ...

Acute cholecystitis, obstruction of the common duct by ... A past history of gallbladder disease and a recent attack of colic followed by jaundice is the usual syndrome of a stone in the common ...

This investigation of 23 patients with the clinical syndrome of "primary biliary cirrhosis" was undertaken to elucidate the morphologic nature of the hepatic alterations, including their etiology ...

Biliary tract disease describes any disease that affects the biliary tract the gall bladder, bile ducts and accompanying structures. Examples include primary sclerosing cholangitis, secondary ...

Abdominal pain can occur due to other gastrointestinal conditions (like bile duct obstruction, inflammatory bowel disease, or peptic ulcer disease), so healthcare providers use a specific set of ...

The Saint Louis University Center for Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases has been officially designated by the National Pancreas ... such as necrotizing pancreatitis, fluid collections, ductal ...

These include the life expectancy of the patient, the location of the biliary obstruction ... the definitive therapy in those with localized disease who are poor operative candidates for ...

Medical conditions such as primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), chronic liver diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, a history of bile duct cysts ... occur due to the obstruction of bile flow.

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...