FIGURE 1. Percutaneous cholangiogram. 1: dilatation of intrahepatic bile ducts; 2: gallstone measuring 30 mm in hepatic ducts confluence; 3: anastomotic common bile duct stricture. FIGURE 2.

Intravenous cholangiography showed slight dilatation of the common duct. At operation in May, 1954, the common bile duct was found to be slightly dilated but contained no calculi.

During the past three years at Grady Memorial Hospital intravenous cholangiography has been performed as an emergency procedure in an unselected group of patients who were clinically thought to ...

If you have had sedation, you might not remember much about having the procedure done. You need to stay lying down afterwards. Your nurse will tell you when you can get up and when you can start ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver ...

Different techniques have been described to reduce the incidence of this complication, and near-infrared fluorescence cholangiography with indocyanine green (NIRFC-ICG) is one of the latest additions.

ERCP is an endoscopic surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic procedure that enables the visualization of biliary and pancreatic ducts, the correct diagnosis of biliary and pancreatic diseases, as well ...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the most commonly performed laparoscopic procedure in the Netherlands, with almost 23 000 procedures annually. 1 Bile duct injury during this procedure is rare ...

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) . This procedure combines an endoscopy with an ultrasound to obtain images from your gastrointestinal tract. The procedure is similar to an upper endoscopy. EUS is useful ...