Benign Biliary Stricture (No Surgical Injury to Ducts) in 10 Patients. The prevention of this disabling complication has previously been discussed by Lahey and Pyrtek. 3 Several situations demand ...

DNA/RNA-based next-generation sequencing allows earlier diagnosis of neoplastic bile duct strictures, a prospective multicenter real-time study finds.

Role of liquid biopsy in diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of hepatocellular carcinoma: A systematic review.

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] Incomplete stricture of the lower common bile duct was produced in 13 dogs by means of a technic similar to that of Imamoglu.

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 ...

Traumatic bile duct injuries usually present clinically as bile leaks. Less commonly, trauma to the bile duct can result in a biliary stricture. Because these injuries tend to be subtle, they may go ...

NATICK, Mass., Boston Scientific Corporation has completed enrollment in a clinical trial to evaluate its WallFlex® Biliary RX Fully Covered Stent for the treatment of benign bile duct strictures ...

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation and stricture formation in the bile ducts inside the liver and/or in the extrahepatic bile duct which drains into ...

Tumors of the bile duct arise from the epithelium lining the intra- and extrahepatic biliary ductal system. More than 90% of the bile duct malignancies are adenocarcinomas. Cholangiocarcinomas most ...