Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is one of the most recent advances in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Available EUS devices include echoendoscopes, such as radial scanning and linear array echoendoscopes ...

Perioperative blood transfusions do not affect disease recurrence of patients undergoing curative resection of colorectal carcinoma: a Mayo/North Central Cancer Treatment Group study. Patients ...

STRUCTURAL variations of the extrahepatic biliary tract are extremely common and have been extensively described, tabulated and diagrammed, in an effort to reduce the number of technical accidents ...

Biliary atresia, a progressive sclerosis of the extrahepatic biliary tree that occurs only within the first 3 months of life, is one of the most common causes of neonatal cholestasis and accounts for ...

THE clinical differentiation of atresia of the extrahepatic bile ducts from the intrahepatic conditions causing obstructive jaundice has been a challenge to pediatricians from the time when these two ...

G-CSF produced in some cancers is thought to be an autocrine growth factor. Therefore, patients with G-CSF producing cancer generally have a poor prognosis, and early diagnosis and treatment are ...

Bile Bile ducts are thin tubes that connect the liver with the small intestine. These ducts transport bile (digestive fluid) formed in the liver and the gallbladder ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) usually develops in the bile duct system that arises from the liver and bile ducts and ends at the small intestine. Cancer that develops in the section of bile ...