Post written by Il Sang Shin, MD, PhD, Jong Ho Moon, MD, PhD, and Yun Nah Lee, MD, PhD, from the Digestive Disease Center and Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, SoonChunHyang University School of Medicine, Bucheon, Cheonan, and Seoul, Korea. Indirect diagnostic modalities such as CT, magnetic resonance imaging, and ERCP are sometimes unsatisfactory for …
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Use of peroral cholangioscopy to screen for neoplastic bile duct lesions in patients with bile duct stones
Post written by Il Sang Shin, MD Jong Ho Moon, MD, PhD Yun Nah Lee, MD, PhD, from the Digestive Disease Center and Research Institute, Departments of Internal Medicine, SoonChunHyang University School of Medicine, Bucheon, Korea. Although cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) has very high mortality rates due to its late detection, satisfactory screening methods of CCA have …
Successful removal of intrahepatic bile duct stones
Syed Mujahid Hassan, FCPS and colleagues from the Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Civil Hospital Karachi, in Karachi, Pakistan present this video case "Successful removal of intrahepatic bile duct stones by using a combination of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and direct peroral cholangioscopy." This video demonstrates the successful removal of intrahepatic …
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