Bile duct inflammation and scarring, known as cholangiopathies, can disrupt bile flow, leading to liver damage and ...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US ...

Chemotherapy is a drug or a combination of drugs that kills cancer cells wherever they are in the body. You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called ...

Radiation therapy uses precisely focused high-energy beams to kill cancer cells. To treat bile duct cancer, our doctors may give radiation alone or in combination with chemotherapy or other treatments ...

After abnormal results of liver-function tests have been obtained ... Ultrasonography will detect gallstones, dilatation of the bile duct or the presence of a hepatic abscess in patients in ...

In a rare medical case, a giant roundworm (Ascariasis lumbricoides) was successfully removed from a 45-year-old woman’s bile duct during endoscopy at Bombay Hospital. According to doctors ...

As jaundice increases, it may lead to coagulopathy, impaired liver function and a poor outcome ... Overall, the technical success rate of bile duct stent placement is around 90–95%.

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...