Cholangiocarcinoma, which accounts for ~3% of all gastrointestinal cancers, has an incidence of ~5000 new cases per year in the United States, 1 although incidence per capita is several times higher ...

Background. A 72-year-old hypertensive woman presented with a 2-month history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain. She had a 15-day history of jaundice, fever with chills and shivering, nausea, ...

Bile Bile ducts are thin tubes that connect the liver with the small intestine. These ducts transport bile (digestive fluid) formed in the liver and the gallbladder ...

In a study of more than 100 patients with common bile duct strictures at a dozen institutions, ECDS was associated with a significantly higher technical success rate than ERCP of 93.7% versus 77.2%, ...

Distal cholangiocarcinomas are rare, but clinicians can use a variety of imaging to diagnose it. A new case report of a patient with distal cholangiocarcinoma highlights how imaging and histopathology ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) usually develops in the bile duct system that arises from the liver and bile ducts and ends at the small intestine. Cancer that develops in the section of bile ...

Tumors of the bile duct arise from the epithelium lining the intra- and extrahepatic biliary ductal system. More than 90% of the bile duct malignancies are adenocarcinomas. Cholangiocarcinomas most ...

Cholangiographic classification of IgG4-SC into 4 types based on stricture location is crucial to differentiate IgG4-SC from other biliary conditions. Characteristic findings on intraductal ...

Subtype 1 is an IgG4-associated systemic disorder with pancreatic involvement; it is more common in men, especially older men. [14] The symptoms are nonspecific and include mild epigastric abdominal ...

A 66-year-old man presented with generalised jaundice, significant weight loss, and epigastric pain. Diagnostic imaging, including ultrasound, CT, and MRI, revealed a periampullary duodenal ...

Recurrence is common in patients with distal cholangiocarcinoma, even after curative surgical resection. In a recent study, postoperative adjuvant therapy correlated with improved survival, but only ...