This 8-year, retrospective study examined the records of adult patients with suspected pancreaticobiliary disease attending a tertiary referral center between January 1996 and October 2003. All ...

NEW YORK, July 17 (Praxis Press) Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is a promising alternative to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), but its accuracy has not been ...

The presence of ductal abnormalities after an unexplained acute attack of acute pancreatitis or in patients with recurrent acute pancreatitis might lead to a misdiagnosis of chronic pancreatitis or ...

If a choledochocholedochostomy (duct-to-duct anastomosis) was done at the time of transplantation, the patient should have an ERCP. However, if the anastomosis was a choledochojejunostomy (roux-en-Y) ...

Management of suspected biliary disease requires accurate evaluation for biliary obstruction. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the gold standard for evaluation of the biliary ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a medical technique that is used primarily to investigate and treat pathologies involving the biliary tree and pancreatic ducts. Image Credit: ...

In the era of laparoscopic surgery, intra-operative X-ray investigation of bile ducts to identify coexisting common bile duct stones has been replaced by new techniques, which, unfortunately, are ...

Introduction: Biliary and pancreatic diseases, especially choledocholithiasis and neoplastic diseases, are commonly seen in elderly patients. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a ...

Clinical presentation, radiologic imaging, and pancreatic function testing (PFT) are pillars of investigation for the diagnosis of CP, which is a complex illness that often eludes diagnostic certainty ...