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Successful Removal of a Difficult Common Bile Duct Stone by Percutaneous Transcholecystic Cholangioscopy [PDF]
Common bile duct (CBD) stones are prevalent in 11% to 21% of patients with gallstones and can cause various clinical manifestations, from biliary colic to biliary sepsis.
Hyunsuk Lee+7 more
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Biliary pneumatosis has recently been reported in intrahepatic amd extrahepatic bile ducts complicating bacterial cholangitis, as characterized by cholangioscopy.
Vincent Zimmer
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Single-operator Cholangioscopy Guided Lithotripsy
ERCP is the standard treatment for common bile duct stones (CBD stones). On the other hand, in approximately 10% of patients with CBD stones, the complete removal of the stones cannot be achieved by conventional ERCP, which performs endoscopic ...
Jungha Shin, Chi Hyuk Oh, Seok Ho Dong
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Difficult Biliary Stones: A Comprehensive Review of New and Old Lithotripsy Techniques [PDF]
Biliary stones represent the most common indication for therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Many cases are successfully managed with biliary sphincterotomy and stone extraction with balloon or basket catheters.
Blanco G. D. V.+4 more
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Hemobilia from biliary angiodysplasia diagnosed with cholangioscopy [PDF]
Biliary angiodysplasia is extremely rare. Our background search revealed only a few case reports in the English literature. We present a case of angiodysplasia of the proximal common bile duct in a patient with subacute upper gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Foong, Kap Sum+3 more
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The Role of Peroral Cholangioscopy in Evaluating Indeterminate Biliary Strictures [PDF]
Biliary strictures are considered indeterminate when the initial radiologic evaluation and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with brush cytology and/or forceps biopsy do not reveal diagnostic findings.
Nasim Parsa, Mouen A. Khashab
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Red dichromatic imaging is a new image‐enhancement technology that clarifies the differences in blood concentrations and improves the visibility of the bleeding point.
Yusuke Kimura+10 more
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Diagnosis of pancreaticobiliary malignancy by detection of minichromosome maintenance protein 5 in biliary brush cytology [PDF]
Background: Biliary brush cytology is the standard method of evaluating biliary strictures, but is insensitive at detecting malignancy. In pancreaticobiliary cancer minichromosome maintenance replication proteins (MCM 2–7) are dysregulated in the ...
Chapman, MH+7 more
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Controversies in the management of primary sclerosing cholangitis [PDF]
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) remains a rare but significant disease, which affects mainly young males in association with inflammatory bowel disease.
Devlin, J+4 more
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Novel biomarkers and endoscopic techniques for diagnosing pancreaticobiliary malignancy [PDF]
The UK incidence of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is 9 per 100,000 population, and biliary tract cancer occurs at a rate of 1-2 per 100,000. The incidence of both cancers is increasing annually and these tumours continue to be diagnosed late and at an
Joshi, D+3 more
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