Lucknow: Doctors highlighted role of advanced imaging techniques in enabling early and accurate diagnosis of liver and bile ...

Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Palliative treatment is appropriate for most patients with cancer of the head of pancreas. Insertion of a biliary stent relieves jaundice and pruritus but it is not ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When double-stent placement (duodenal and biliary) is considered, biliary stent placement can be performed either preceding or following ...

Endoscopic biliary stenting is a well-recognised method of palliation of malignant biliary obstruction. Distal stent migration causing duodenal perforation is an uncommon complication of this ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When parallel stent deployment is considered, after guidewire placement on both sides, a plastic stent is first placed and a SEMS deployed on ...

The following is a summary of "Risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis due to placement of biliary self-expandable metal stents (SEMS): a single-center retrospective study," published in the March 2025 issue ...

A 59-year-old British lawyer who delayed getting a diagnosis for his bile duct cancer passed away just three weeks later. Johnathan Ainsworth’s wife said he was constantly suffering from stomachache, ...

After a comprehensive assessment, simultaneous T-tube-free laparoscopic transcholedochal stone extraction and cholecystectomy were performed safely in the pregnant patient with common bile duct stones ...

At the 6-month postoperative follow-up, no recurrence of stones or complications was observed. Foreign bodies most commonly found in the bile duct include surgical clips, stent fragments, and T-tube ...