Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US) or ...

This randomized multicenter trial enrolled adults with known or suspected bile duct stones who had undergone cholecystectomy (or had it planned within 30 days). Patients were excluded if they had ...

A 63-year-old woman's recurrent abdominal pain was blamed on bile duct stones, but surgeons discovered a rare precancerous ...

EPBD for stone extraction should be avoided in routine clinical practice; if used for patients with coagulopathy or altered surgical anatomy, care should be taken to avoid contrast injection into the ...

The present study comprised 24 patients with dilations of the bile duct (peripheral and hilar), without visible mass on US and CT, who underwent surgical resection at our institution between February ...