Bile Duct Injury—Classification and Prevention

Prevention of bile duct cancer in primary sclerosing cholangitis.

Patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) have a substantial predisposition to develop bile duct carcinoma. The mechanism is still unclear but the observation that patients with chronic Clonorchis sinensis infection are also prone to cholangiocarcinoma suggests a role for long standing inflammation. However, there is still no effective medical therapy which can halt the progression of ...

Management of Bile Duct Problems Treatment Overview Bile Duct Obstruction

Prevention of Biliary Duct Injury in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Using Optical Fiber Illumination in Common Bile Duct

BACKGROUND Biliary duct injury (BDI) is one of the most common complications in laparoscopic cholectecystomy (LC), in this study, we have tried to place an illuminating optical fiber via endoscopy in the CBD during LC, the biliary duct anatomy can be clearly delineated, thus CBD injury is avoided. METHODS Sixteen patients with chronic cholecystitis or/and cholelithiasis from February 2007 to ...

Bile duct tumors.

Bile duct tumors are benign or malignant lesions which may be associated to risk factors or potentially malignant lesions. They constitute an heterogenous entities group with a different biological behavior and prognosis according to location and growth pattern. We revise the role of the radiologist in order to detect, characterize and stage these tumors, specially the importance of their class...

Practical Bile Duct Imaging

US is most commonly used as the primary examination of gallstone disease due to its high diagnostic accuracy and ready availability. CT scan occasionally has difficulty in delineating small stones or pure cholesterol stones. Adenomyomatosis is an acquired, hyperplastic lesion of the gallbladder (GB) characterized by excessive proliferation of surface epithelium with invaginations into a thicken...