Researchers have found in a new study that pre-operative ultrasound showing isolated common bile duct (CBD) dilation does not ...

Causes of Bile Duct Enlargement Obstruction. As said earlier, the common cause is the obstruction of the bile duct. Further, this can result from gallstones, tumors, or inflammation, preventing ...

A periampullary duodenal diverticulum compresses the distal bile duct, leading to obstructive jaundice in a patient without ...

At operation, 87 patients were found to have a dilated common bile duct. Thirty-two of the ducts contained a single stone, and 68 contained multiple stones. Cholecystectomy was done in 83 cases.

Bile duct cysts are areas of dilation within the biliary system that connects the liver, gallbladder, and small intestine. Health ... Type 1: occurs in the common bile duct ...

A bile duct obstruction describes when one of the tubes that carries bile between the liver, gallbladder, and small intestine becomes blocked. Learn more here.

THE present report concerns a patient who was successfully treated for cystic dilatation of the common bile duct associated with congenital absence of the gall bladder. Both these anomalies are rar ...

Anatomy of the extrahepatic bile ducts. Extrahepatic bile ducts are small tubes that carry bile outside of the liver. They are made up of the common hepatic duct (hilum region) and the common bile ...

It then flows down the common bile duct. Before it gets to the small bowel, the common bile duct joins the pancreatic duct. This releases pancreatic juice which also breaks down food to make it easier ...