The left and right hepatic ducts come together outside the liver, forming the common hepatic duct. It’s connected to your gallbladder by the cystic duct. These ducts move bile from your liver to ...

In Medicare beneficiaries, rates of bile duct injury were consistently higher with robotic-assisted cholecystectomy than with ...

It's the most common ... bile ducts, so cholangiocarcinoma is cancer of the bile ducts. The bile ducts are tubes that connect the liver and gallbladder to the small bowel. They carry bile, which is ...

As jaundice increases, it may lead to coagulopathy, impaired liver function and a poor outcome ... instillation of antibiotics into the common bile duct prior to stent placement, or specially ...

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...

You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called neoadjuvant therapy. If you receive chemotherapy after surgery to destroy and cancer cells that may remain, it ...

The kind of radiation we recommend depends on the type of bile duct cancer, the location of the tumor, and whether it has spread. External-beam radiation therapy is the most common type of radiation ...

The most frequently described causes of SSC are longstanding biliary obstruction, surgical trauma to the bile duct and ischemic ... After abnormal results of liver-function tests have been ...