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.

Between September 2001 and September 2009, consecutive patients with large CBDS (> 10 mm) managed by EPLBD alone (size of dilating balloon > 10 mm, without EST) were reviewed in Kaohsiung Veterans ...

Endoscopic Papillary Large Balloon Dilation (EPLBD): A technique that involves dilating the opening of the bile duct to facilitate the removal of stones. Endoscopic Sphincterotomy (EST): A ...

The common duct is usually dilated; however, it may be of normal size (Case 1), even in the presence of obstructive jaundice. On probing the common bile duct, the instruments may go through the ...

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 ...

A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (per-kew-tay-nee-us trans-hep-attic col-an-jee-o-gram) is a way of looking at your bile ducts using x-rays. This test is also called a PTC. You may have a ...

Gallstone disease is the most common disorder affecting the biliary system, the body's system of transporting bile. Gallstones are solid, pebble-like masses that form in the gallbladder or the biliary ...

PSC causes the bile ducts to narrow from scarring and inflammation ... may be placed in the ducts during this procedure or balloon dilation may be used. If the progression of the PSC leads ...

Chronic intraductal gall stones. Bile duct adenoma and biliary papillomatosis. Caroli’s disease (cystic dilatation of ducts, lifetime risk 7%). Choledochal cysts (about 5% will transform, risk ...