Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the standard treatment for patients requiring gallbladder removal. Although the advantages of the laparoscopic technique are widely accepted, the introduction of this technique has doubled the rate of iatrogenic lesions of extrahepatic bile ducts. Research methods for biliary tree also evolved, but intraoperative cholangiography, the traditional exploring method ...

PURPOSE To assess whether contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR Cholangiography may provide additional information in the evaluation of biliary complications in orthotopic liver transplant recipients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eighty liver transplant patients with suspicion of biliary adverse events underwent MR imaging at 1.5 T scanner. After acquisition of axial T1-/T2-weighted images and conventiona...

Intraoperative cholangiography was successfully performed in 1,000 out of 1,006 attempts in 1019 consecutive cholecystectomies. There were 783 chronic, 95 acute, 61 fibrotic, 27 gangrenous and 40 cases of hydrops of the gallbladder in those laparoscopic cholecystectomies performed. unsuspected common duct stones were identified in 5% of the patients. There were no injuries resulting from intrao...

To assess the relation of bacteraemia to intraoperative cholangiography 194 patients with choledochlithiasis who underwent choledochotomy and who had intraoperative cholangiography through the cystic duct are presented in this study. It has been shown that, in the presence of infected bile, intraoperative cholangiography without manometric control is hazardous, provoking a high incidence of bac...

Objective: To assess the diagnostic problem created by pneumobilia at magnetic resonance cholangiography performed in the supine position, and to investigate whether performing the examination in the decubitus position obviates the problem. Patients and Methods: Twelve patients with a history of recurrent pyogenic cholangitis and ultrasound diagnosis of pneumobilia were studied by means of heav...

biliary papillomatosis is a disorder characterized by numerous adenomatous polyps of variable distribution and extent in intrahepatic bile ducts. it should be considered as a premalignant condition because a high proportion of the lesions undergo malignant transformation. in this report, we present a patient with abdominal pain and jaundice. according to his presenting signs and symptoms, ercp ...

BACKGROUND Helical computed tomography performed after intravenous administration of a cholangiographic contrast material (HCT-cholangiography) may be useful for detecting bile duct stones in non-jaundiced patients. However, this method has never been compared with other non-invasive biliary imaging tests. AIMS To compare prospectively HCT-cholangiography and endosonography (EUS) in a group o...