Biliary obstruction: A blockage in the bile duct system that prevents bile from flowing from the liver to the intestine. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS): A minimally invasive procedure that uses high ...

Two viruses, reovirus and rotavirus, have received increasing attention as possible inciters of an immune-mediated injury to the biliary tree. Fas ligand upregulation and apoptosis of bile duct ...

This investigation of 23 patients with the clinical syndrome of "primary biliary cirrhosis" was undertaken ... Patency of the extrahepatic bile ducts had been demonstrated in all the cases by ...

As the common bile duct and pancreatic duct are adjacent to one another in the duodenal papilla, pancreatitis secondary to biliary tract obstruction is a common cause; alcohol abuse is another ...

The diagnosis of Biliary cancers, also known as cholangiocarcinoma or bile duct cancers can be devastating ... colour and ...

Through the endoscope, the physician can see the inside of the stomach and duodenum and inject dyes into the ducts in the biliary tree and pancreas so they ... The tiny endoscope can be advanced into ...

The Bismuth–Corlette classification system provides an anatomic description of the tumor location and longitudinal extension in the biliary tree (Figure ... of the bile duct, coupled with ...

The gallbladder is a little ... and other problems when they block the bile ducts. Cholecystitis is essentially caused by ...