Biliary sphincterotomy alone, placement of a biliary stent, and nasobiliary drainage ... stenting are effective in the therapy of bile duct leakages. The small number of patient in our study ...

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When double-stent placement (duodenal and biliary) is considered, biliary stent placement can be performed either preceding or following ...

This test is also called a PTC. You may have a sample of tissue (biopsy) taken during a PTC. If your bile duct is blocked your doctor may put a drain or stent in so the bile can drain. Your doctor ...

The Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) successfully performed a transhepatic stent-assisted portal vein aneurysm coil embolization, ...

1 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Haikou Affiliated Hospital of Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, Haikou, Hainan, China 2 Haikou Key Laboratory of Clinical Research and ...

The radiopaque mark on the delivery system (arrowhead) is located 1 cm above the proximal end of the plastic biliary stent, which will be positioned inside the bile duct (above the point of ...

Lucknow: King George's Medical University (KGMU) introduced a new non-surgical procedure to remove common bile duct (CBD) stones, which occur when a gallstone is present in the common bile duct ...

If the risk of PEP can be predicted before ERCP, then the expert endoscopist can perform ERCP from the start, and high-PEP-risk procedures (for example, precut sphincterotomy, multiple cannulation ...

Spontaneous HAP was defined when there was no recent hepatobiliary procedure (liver biopsy, biliary drain placement, Whipple surgery), intrabdominal ... Treatment options for HAP are embolization and ...