The purpose of the study was to challenge the claim by surgeons that differences in bile duct injury rates in robotic versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy were due to patient-selection factors ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009;24(5):762-769. The use of endoscopic therapy to manage post-surgical bile duct leaks is well established in clinical practice. However, in literature, there is no ...

MAIT cells are good fighters. Researchers have found that MAIT cells can respond very quickly to infections. Their speed ...

Selective deep cannulation of the common bile duct remains the key rate-limiting ... tract infection with transient acute lung injury and sputum showing gram-negative organism.

Bile duct cancer is a disease where cancerous cells form in the tissues of the bile duct. The bile duct is part of a network of tubes that connect the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and small intestine ...

Bile duct injury occurred approximately three times more often with the robotic approach, indicating that patient selection does not account for this increased risk. This summary was automatically ...

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