The earliest stages of bile duct cancer might not cause any symptoms which mean it can have reached an advanced stage before ...

The bile ducts move bile from the liver and the gallbladder to the small intestine where it helps digest the fats in food. Cancers can develop in any part of the bile duct system. Physicians in the ...

As robotic cholecystectomy, also known as gallbladder removal, becomes increasingly common, researchers have identified ...

Included in this prospective study cohort were all patients with CBDS and gallbladder stones treated with laparoscopic common bile duct stone extraction (LCBDE) at the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital ...

Hence, to understand these cancers better, Dr Kanchan Motwani, Consultant, HPB and Liver Transplant ... is a common early ...

The vague symptoms could be major warning signs of the cancer which is often missed until it has reached an advanced stage ...

THE present report concerns a patient who was successfully treated for cystic dilatation of the common bile duct associated with congenital absence of the gall bladder. Both these anomalies are ...

After surgery, bile flows from the liver (where it is made) through the common bile duct and into the small intestine. Because the gallbladder has been removed, the body can no longer store bile ...

the most common localization of bile leakages was the cystic duct stump (21/35 patients), followed by the accessory bile duct (7/35 patients) and the bed of the gallbladder (6/35 patients).

This trial is looking at targeted drugs for bile duct cancer and gallbladder cancer that has spread to another ... A study looking at changes to the liver and the immune system to improve the ...

Compared to laparoscopic cholecystectomies, the rate of needing a second procedure to repair a bile duct injury is high across the board ...