Cholangiocarcinoma, which accounts for ~3% of all gastrointestinal cancers, has an incidence of ~5000 new cases per year in the United States, 1 although incidence per capita is several times higher ...
IN recent years, cholecystectomy has been performed in an increasing number of patients. As a result, two serious complications of biliary-tract surgery have occurred with increasing frequency. The ...
Extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma (EBDC) is a relatively uncommon tumor worldwide, but is more common in Japan than in Western countries. 1 Despite recent progress in diagnostic and therapeutic ...
Among patients with possible common duct stones, removal of the gall bladder, compared with endoscopic assessment of the common duct followed by gall bladder removal, resulted in a shorter length of ...
The lymphatic system is similar to the blood circulation system. The lymph vessels branch through all parts of the body like the arteries and veins that carry blood. But the lymphatic system tubes are ...
Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) usually develops in the bile duct system that arises from the liver and bile ducts and ends at the small intestine. Cancer that develops in the section of bile ...
Interventional radiologists with Nemours Children's Health System have identified a new source of abnormal lymphatic flow between the liver and the lungs that may be responsible for some cases of ...
IN the 1908 Christian Herter Lectures at Bellevue Hospital, Starling 1 emphasized the important influence of changes in hepatic interstitial-fluid formation on flow and composition of thoracic-duct ...
Bile duct cancer is a rare type of cancer in which cancer cells form in the bile ducts. Bile ducts are a series of tubes that go from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine. They carry bile, ...
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