During the dissection I found the cystic duct to be dilated so I transfixed it. I did not do an intraoperative cholangiogram. The excised gallbladder had no stone! Postoperatively, the ultrasound ...

The ducts typically involved are the common bile duct, the cystic duct, and the common hepatic ... whereas others may have hundreds of stones within their gallbladder. In the United States alone ...

It involves the placement of a wire through the cystic duct to the ampulla at the time of laparoscopic ... alkaline phosphatase and amylase were within normal limits. An ultrasound of the abdomen ...

These "silent" stones usually go unnoticed unless they ... When you eat a meal, the gallbladder releases its stored bile into the cystic duct. From there the fluid passes through the common ...

Gallstones can present as an obstructive disease or as cholecystitis, which is an inflammation of the gallbladder secondary to gallstone obstruction of the cystic ... bile duct stones (19% ...

It involves inserting a plastic stent through the ampulla and cystic duct into the gallbladder endoscopically. 2.5 Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis is ...

It will travel straight through the gallbladder if there are no gallstones, but if there are stones, it will bounce back from them. The denser the object the ultrasound hits, the more of the ...