Duodenal appears to be preferred over jejunal anastomosis for biliary reconstruction, as it is safe and simple, with low rates of leak, stricture, cholangitis, and bile gastritis, according to a ...

Endosonography-guided biliary drainage is a new method that enables internal drainage of bile. A research group performed histological examination of and around the fistula created by ESBD in a ...

Benign Biliary Stricture (No Surgical Injury to Ducts) in 10 Patients. The prevention of this disabling complication has previously been discussed by Lahey and Pyrtek. 3 Several situations demand ...

Background. A 72-year-old hypertensive woman presented with a 2-month history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain. She had a 15-day history of jaundice, fever with chills and shivering, nausea, ...

A 35-year-old chronic alcoholic patient presented with abdominal pain and distention and vomiting for 4 days. He had peritoneal signs, his abdominal x-rays showed no pneumoperitoneum, and his ...

Lurking half-hidden behind the lower edge of the liver, the pear-shaped gall bladder serves as a storehouse for an essential substance—the thick, greenish bile (or gall) that the liver manufactures to ...

The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

The role of endosonography (ES) in digestive diseases is expanding gradually from diagnostic applications to therapeutic ones. The feasibility of ES-guided cholangiopancreatography was first reported ...