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Study assesses placement of multiple endoscopic stents for postoperative biliary strictures

Researchers from Italy have reported results from more than 10 years of follow-up showing that the placement of multiple endoscopic stents for the treatment of postoperative biliary strictures remains excellent with a low ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Placement of removable metal biliary stent in post-OLT anastomotic stricture

Benign biliary strictures after liver transplantation are usually treated by repeated endoscopic interventions or surgery. A group of researchers in Australia reported the outcome of two patients with refractory anastomotic ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gallbladder emptying in primary sclerosing cholangitis patients

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an idiopathic chronic cholestatic inflammatory liver disease characterized by diffuse fibrosing inflammation of intra- and/or extrahepatic bile ducts, resulting in bile duct obliteration, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is bilateral liver resection safe for bilateral intrahepatic stones?

A research article to be published on August 7, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. In the present study, 101 consecutive patients with bilateral intrahepatic stones who underwent bilate ...

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New pathology tests double sensitivity to detect bile duct and pancreatic cancers

Pancreatic cancer and bile duct cancer are difficult to diagnose and often fatal because they are discovered in the advanced stages of the disease. Researchers have developed new tests that double the ability to detect bile ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How to differentiate benign from malignant bile duct strictures?

The differentiation of benign and malignant strictures is difficult. Recently, a group of clinical specialists in Netherlands attempted to find possible criteria for differentiation of malignant from benign bile duct strictures. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Are tumors causing stricture of bile duct always malignant?

The benign biliary tract tumor is rarely found in clinical practice. One case of bile duct adenomyoma was recently reported in the January 28 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. This paper cited studies on how ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 22, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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