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The Role of Cholangioscopy and EUS in the Evaluation of Indeterminate Biliary Strictures

Gastroenterology Insights, 2022
Bile duct stenosis continues to present a diagnostic dilemma for clinicians. It is important to establish the benign or malignant nature of the stricture early in order to avoid any unnecessary delay in medical treatment or surgery.
Wilson Siu, Raymond S. Y. Tang
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Non-Surgical Biliary Drainage on Biliary Obstruction Due to Malignancy [PDF]

, 2001
Surgery is still the golden standard of curative therapy for Malignant biliary obstruction, but only 10- 20% of cases considered resectable. Therefore, palliative therapy to relieve pain, cholestasis, and biliary obstruction, is the main treatment for ...
Hasan, I. (Irsan), Lesmana, L. A. (L), Syam, A. F. (Ari), Tambunan, K. (Karmel), Yunihastuti, E. (Evy)   +4 more
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Unilateral versus bilateral endoscopic biliary stenting for malignant hilar biliary strictures [PDF]

Digestive Endoscopy, 2013
The present review compared unilateral versus bilateral stenting in order to determine the optimal stenting strategy for malignant hilar biliary strictures based on the previous literature. The role of preoperative biliary drainage prior to liver resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma remains under discussion. However, in Japan, endoscopic placement of
Ichiro, Yasuda, Tsuyoshi, Mukai, Hisataka, Moriwaki   +2 more
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A multicenter, prospective study of a new fully covered expandable metal biliary stent for the palliative treatment of malignant bile duct obstruction [PDF]

, 2013
Background and Study Aims. Endoscopic placement of self-expanding metal stents (SEMSs) is indicated for palliation of inoperable malignant biliary obstruction. A fully covered biliary SEMS (WallFlex Biliary RX Boston Scientific, Natick, USA) was assessed
Baron, Todd H, Binmoeller, Kenneth, Branch, Malcolm S, Carr-Locke, David, Chen, Yang K, Edmundowicz, Steven, Freeman, Martin, Gluck, Michael, Gupta, Kapil, Jowell, Paul, Kahaleh, Michel, Kinney, Timothy, Kowalski, Thomas, Kozarek, Richard A, Loren, David, Petersen, Bert T, Ross, William, Shah, Raj J   +17 more
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Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography stents : indications, risks and novel uses [PDF]

, 2012
Stents cannulating the common bile duct and/or the pancreatic duct are frequently used during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in both temporary and definitive management of several conditions.
Azzopardi, Neville
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Evaluation of Intraductal Ultrasonography, Endoscopic Brush Cytology and K-ras, P53 Gene Mutation in the Early Diagnosis of Malignant Bile Duct Stricture

Chinese Medical Journal, 2015
Background: In qualitative diagnosis of bile duct stenosis, single diagnostic measure is difficult to make a correct diagnosis, to combine several diagnostic techniques may be helpful to make an accurate diagnosis.
Ping Huang, Hao Zhang, Xiao-Feng Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Wen Lyu, Zhen Fan   +5 more
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The performance of biliary stents in malignant biliary strictures

Polish Archives of Internal Medicine
Endoscopic stenting is a commonly applied method of treatment in patients with malignant biliary strictures. It involves the use of self‑expandable metal stents (SEMSs) or plastic stents (PSs).The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of SEMSs and PSs in the endoscopic drainage of malignant strictures of the biliary tree and its sequels for
Bartosz, Ostrowski, Tomasz, Marek, Aleksandra, Janczewska, Norbert, Hajder, Artur, Wiatrek, Ewa, Nowakowska-Duława, Marek, Hartleb   +6 more
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma [PDF]

, 2013
A 61-year-old gentleman who lives with his wife and 20-year-old son, presented to the polyclinic with a four week history of pruritus. On examination he was found to be jaundiced and his LFTs were high.
Bezzina, Sarah, Debattista, Daniel
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Identification of a serum biomarker panel for the differential diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma and primary sclerosing cholagnitis [PDF]

, 2018
The non-invasive differentiation of malignant and benign biliary disease is a clinical challenge. Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), leucine-rich α2-glycoprotein (LRG1), interleukin 6 (IL6), pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2), cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA21.1)
Blyuss, O, Cuenco, J, Dawnay, A, Kazarian, A, Manns, MP, Menon, U, Pereira, SP, Timms, JF, Wehnert, N, Whitwell, HJ   +9 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) combined with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in determining the nature of biliary stricture

The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Background Differentiation of benign from malignant biliary stricture is a complex task. We aimed to evaluate diagnostic yield of MRCP combined with CT in the diagnosis of malignant and benign biliary strictures and correlated with histopathological ...
Heba Mohamed Samier, Ahmed Fawzy Selim, Mohamed Elsayed Sarhan, Tamer Mahmoud Dawoud   +3 more
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