BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance cholangiography (MRC) is currently under investigation for non-invasive biliary tract imaging. AIM To compare MRC with endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) for ...

Although imaging of the biliary tree was introduced as early as 1922, it was the introduction of percutaneous trans hepatic cholangiography by the ultrathin needle in the late 1960s in Japan and the ...

In hepatology, the term overlap syndrome describes variant forms of the major hepatobiliary autoimmune diseases, autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and primary sclerosing ...

and will be based on the findings of variable imaging modalities such as US, CT or cholangiography and the clinical situation of each case.

Exploratory laparotomy, cholangiography through a normal gall bladder and liver biopsy were performed. Liver biopsy was reported compatible with primary biliary cirrhosis. The subsequent course ...

Pancreatic cancer develops when abnormal cells in the pancreas grow and divide uncontrollably, forming a tumor. The pancreas is a glandular organ nestled between the stomach and the spine that ...

Correspondence to: Professor J P Neoptolemos School of Cancer Studies, Division of Surgery and Oncology, University of Liverpool, 5th Floor UCD Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK; ...