relative high stone recurrence rate although a final cholangiogram was obtained to confirm the bile duct clearance for every patient, and f) significant number of patients were lost to follow-up.

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Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a progressive scarring of the liver's bile ducts. According to current estimates, between 5 and 16 in every 100,000 ...

Methods: Between February 1995 and February 2001, 24 patients who underwent surgical resection for dilations of the bile duct (peripheral and hilar) without visible mass lesion on US or CT were ...

Cholecystingraphy: You receive an intravenous radioactive substance, which your liver absorbs and then is secreted into the gallbladder and bile ducts. Scans are then taken that can accurately detect ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is used to investigate biliary strictures, enabling the collection of bile. We tested the diagnostic potential of next-generation sequencing (NGS) ...

Endoscopic sphincterotomy did not reduce the risk of recurrent biliary events (OR ... had an intraoperative and/or postoperative bleeding and 7 (4%) had a bile duct injury (type A, 5 patients; type B, ...

The presence of stones within the common bile duct. Treatment for choledocholithiasis is a procedure called endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), in which a flexible tube with a light ...