Gallbladder removal is an elective or emergency surgery. Learn when a surgeon would perform laparoscopic vs. open gallbladder ...

Follow-up US were performed in all children to evaluate the recurrence of stones or sludge and changes of biliary dilatation.

Advanced bile duct cancer means the cancer has spread outside the bile ducts. It might have spread into lymph nodes or organs near the bile duct (locally advanced bile duct cancer). Or spread to other ...

A 66-year-old female patient was found to have a bile duct mass by routine examination. The liver function tests and tumor markers were normal. Imaging findings revealed a 2.6 cm mass in the common ...

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Image credit: Shutterstock / Ekaterina Markelova. The European Commission (EC) has conditionally approved Ipsen’s Iqirvo (elafibranor) for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), becoming ...

Unknown to them, her family’s beloved organic farm had been fertilized decades earlier with sewage sludge tainted by a dangerous class of chemicals linked to certain cancers, liver disease and a ...