The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) issued a clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of biliary strictures, or abnormal narrowing in the liver's ductal drainage system. The ...

Traumatic bile duct injuries usually present clinically as bile leaks. Less commonly, trauma to the bile duct can result in a biliary stricture. Because these injuries tend to be subtle, they may go ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The appropriate diagnosis and management of biliary strictures has important implications in endoscopic, ...

• Boston Scientific’s Fully Covered WallFlex Biliary RX Stent was successfully removed via endoscopy in all 155 patients included in the study. • 75 percent of patients exhibited stricture resolution ...

Benign Biliary Stricture (No Surgical Injury to Ducts) in 10 Patients. The prevention of this disabling complication has previously been discussed by Lahey and Pyrtek. 3 Several situations demand ...

The differentiation of benign and malignant strictures is difficult. Recently, a group of clinical specialists in Netherlands attempted to find possible criteria for differentiation of malignant from ...

Benign biliary strictures after liver transplantation are usually treated by repeated endoscopic interventions or surgery. A group of researchers in Australia reported the outcome of two patients with ...

Tissue collection during endoscopic procedures is important because it is the only means for providing a definitive diagnosis that can be used by oncologists for establishing the need for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Post-liver transplant biliary strictures correlated with increased rates of allograft rejection, allograft ...

AS a result of Dr. Frank H. Lahey's 1–3 early and continued interest in the repair of bile-duct strictures, this clinic has had a large experience with the management of patients referred here with ...