background: magnetic resonance cholangiography (mrc) has gained popularity for diagnosing primary sclerosing cholangitis (psc). we determined the accuracy of mrc compared with endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (erc) for diagnosing psc. materials and methods: this retrospective case-control study was conducted on patients referred to an outpatient gastroenterology clinic from 2001 to 2013. p...

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to determine whether gadobenate dimeglumine-enhanced MRI is practical as the sole preoperative imaging technique for the examination of living liver donors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Forty-four consecutive living donor candidates underwent liver MRI on a 1.5-T MR unit. The MR examination included in- and opposed-phase T1-weighted gradient-echo imaging, T2-w...

PURPOSE To investigate clinical, laboratory and ultrasonographic parameters in patients with and without preoperative criteria for intraoperative cholangiography (IOC) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in order to define predictive factors of choledocolithiasis. METHODS As a criterion for inclusion in the study the patients should present chronic calculous cholecystitis in the presence or a...

cholangiography is a noninvasive modality that has been proven accurate in the diagnosis of bile duct obstruction and choledocholithiasis (1, 2). Previous reports concerning the usefulness of MR cholangiography for the assessment of intrahepatic choledocholithiasis have focused on the presence of intrahepatic ductal dilatation, stricture, and calculi (3, 4). However, heavily T2weighted MR chola...

Open surgery with common bile duct (CBD) exploration and T tube drainage are still traditionally performed in a large amount of selected patients with cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis. Confirmation of CBD clearance via T tube cholangiography after surgery is a routine procedure before T tube removal. The present study aims at investigating potential risk factors associated with residual s...