Hepato-pancreatico-biliary imaging

Sonographic images of hepato-pancreatico-biliary and intestinal ascariasis: A pictorial review

UNLABELLED Despite advancement in the diagnosis and treatment of intestinal helminthiasis, ascariasis remains the most common cause of helminthic infections in the developing countries. Ultrasound offers a rapid, safe, and noninvasive approach to the diagnosis of intestinal ascariasis. Ultrasound is also the modality of choice for diagnosis of hepatobiliary ascariasis, which is relatively rare ...

Pancreatico-biliary malignancy: prevalence and risk factors.

Tumors arising in the pancreatico-biliary system arise from the same embryological source and share several similar clinical features. For both sites, the mortality rate is high and early diagnosis is difficult. Despite these similarities, there are clear epidemiologic differences between cancers of the biliary tract and cancers of the pancreas. Gallbladder cancer is more frequent in females, w...

Hepato-biliary clinical trials and their inclusion in the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group register and reviews.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group (CHBG) is one of the 52 collaborative review groups within The Cochrane Collaboration. The activities of the CHBG focus on collecting hepato-biliary randomized clinical trials (RCT) and controlled clinical trials (CCT), and including them in systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the trials. In this overview, we present the growth of The C...

Hepato-biliary stem cells: facts and fancies

The canals of Hering and stem cells At the close of the 20 century, a decades long questions was finally settled: both rodent and human livers had facultative hepato-biliary stem cells. The stem cell niche in which these cells’ activities were identified was the canal of Hering (CoH) [1] – the link between hepatocyte canaliculi and the biliary tree. This structure had been functionally demonstr...

Diffusion Weighted MR in Imaging Pancreatico-biliary & Gall Bladder Pathologies: friend or foe?