Selective deep cannulation of the common bile duct remains the key rate-limiting step in successful endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), especially in benign biliary disease.

It is also called ampulla of Vater cancer. When you eat, your gallbladder releases a juice called bile into your common bile duct. Bile breaks down fat in the food you've eaten. This makes it easier ...

The patient, who had been suffering from chronic abdominal pain due to a Common Bile Duct (CBD) stone, had not previously undergone surgery owing to her advanced age and fragile health condition.

After a comprehensive assessment, simultaneous T-tube-free laparoscopic transcholedochal stone extraction and cholecystectomy were performed safely in the pregnant patient with common bile duct stones ...

Located over the entire surface of the small intestine, the villus can be found from about the common bile duct to the ileocecal valve. A single layer of columnar epithelium containing capillaries ...

which may or may not include laparoscopic exploration of the common bile duct (LCBDE). In addition, new imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance cholangiography (MR) and endoscopic ultrasound ...

6 In cases of postcholecystectomy biliary fistula, common bile duct injury should be considered in all the cases. Uncommonly, the source of bile leak can be the duct of Luschka (subvesical duct) that ...

The pancreatic duct plays a key role in collecting pancreatic juice, which is rich in digestive enzymes. The fluid flows unidirectionally into the duodenum, where it mixes with partially digested food ...

The following laparoscopic procedures will be rehearsed in the skills laboratory: Laparoscopic suturing, laparoscopic repair perforated duodenal ulcer, total fundoplication, laparoscopic common bile ...

Bile duct cancer - which doctors call cholangiocarcinoma - affects the network of small tubes that connect the liver, gallbladder and small intestine. According to Cancer Research UK, around 3,100 ...