Despite successful surgery, progressive inflammation and fibrosis of intrahepatic bile ducts develops to varying degrees in all patients, leading to biliary cirrhosis in the majority of patients.

Bile duct cancer articles from across Nature Portfolio Bile duct cancer, or cholangiocarcinoma, is a malignant tumour of either the bile ducts within the liver (intrahepatic), or those leading ...

Introduction Percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy (PTCS) utilizing the Spyglass Discover™ cholangioscope facilitates direct visualization of the biliary tree, enabling both diagnostic and ...

The endoscopic treatment of bile duct injury, including leakages and strictures, is safe and effective, but long-term follow-up data are lacking, especially for the therapy of bile duct strictures.

Type 2b (5.7%): intrahepatic bile duct strictures without prestenotic dilation and with reduced bile duct branches Type 3 (9.6%): strictures in both the hilar hepatic and distal common bile ducts ...

Cholestasis in general is classified as either extrahepatic, where there is a mechanical obstruction to the main bile ducts, or intrahepatic, where such an obstructive lesion cannot be ...

Introduction Endoscopic ultrasound-guided rendezvous technique (EUS-RV) is a relatively new salvage technique for biliary access in cases of failed ERCP. Extra-hepatic EUS-RV can be technically ...

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, progressive disease of the bile duct system. The bile duct system carries bile from the liver and gallbladder into the first part of the small ...

Biliary atresia is a blockage in the tubes (ducts) that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder. This congenital condition occurs when the bile ducts inside or outside the liver do not develop ...

In this paper, pathological sections of rat bile duct carcinoma were used as experimental samples to identify and analyze liver tumor by microscopic hyperspectral imaging (MHSI) technique.