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 ...

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered ... in distinguishing malignant biliary obstruction from benign causes.

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

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 ...

This can happen when you experience a liver, bile duct, or gallbladder condition or when you take certain medications. Bile Duct and Gallbladder Conditions The bile ducts and gallbladder are part ...

Consultant medical oncologist Professor John Bridgewater is leading the UK arm of an international study to find treatments for bile duct cancer (Charlotte Southall/UCLH/PA) Doctors in the UK are ...

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 ...