Bile Duct Repair

Repair of bile duct injuries using autologous peritoneal grafts

Background: A significant number of individuals experience iatrogenic bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Biliarydigestive bypass may be complicated by stenosis and biliary sepsis, affecting both quality of life and life expectancy. To avoid bypass, expensive synthetic grafts have been used. We assessed the use of an autologous peritoneal graft as an alternative. methods: Unde...

Management of Bile Duct Problems Treatment Overview Bile Duct Obstruction

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...

Traumatic Bile Duct Injuries

The vast majority of bile duct injuries is iatrogenic and occurs during abdominal surgeries or other interventions such as endoscopic or percutaneous cannulation of the biliary tree. Accidental traumas are responsible only for 1–5% of the total number of biliary injuries. The diagnosis of non-iatrogenic traumatic bile duct injuries is challeng‐ ing as current cross-sectional imaging tests are n...