In Medicare beneficiaries, rates of bile duct injury were consistently higher with robotic-assisted cholecystectomy than with ...

The common bile duct and common hepatic duct are important in this process, making sure the bile flows from the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine. The cystic duct connects the ...

What Is Metastatic Bile Duct Cancer and Its Causes? Bile duct cancer – also called cholangiocarcinoma – is a rare condition. When you have cholangiocarcinoma, cancer cells grow in your bile ...

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...

The most frequently described causes of SSC are longstanding biliary obstruction, surgical trauma to the bile duct and ischemic injury to the biliary tree in liver allografts. SSC may also follow ...