Items tagged “biliary_tree”
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Pneumobilia
Pneumobilia, also known as aerobilia, is the accumulation of gas in the biliary tree. It is important to distinguish pneumobilia from portal venous gas, the other type of branching hepatic gas. There are many causes of pneumobilia and clinical context is often important to distinguish between th...
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an uncommon inflammatory condition that affects the biliary tree resulting in multiple strictures, liver damage, and eventually cirrhosis.
The diagnosis can be made when there are classical imaging features in the correct clinical context, and secondary c...
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Choledocholithiasis
Choledocholithiasis denotes the presence of gallstones within the bile ducts (including the common hepatic duct/common bile duct).
Epidemiology
Choledocholithiasis is relatively common, seen in up to 20% of patients undergoing cholecystectomy for gallstone-related complaints 2.
Clinical prese...
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Choledochal cyst types (diagram)
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11 Jan 2010
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Diagram
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Choledochal cyst - type I
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12 Jan 2010
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MRI
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Aerobilia (pneumobilia)
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14 Jan 2010
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CT
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Scleroderma (hepatobiliary manifestations)
Hepatobiliary manifestations of scleroderma are only present symptomatically in a minority of patients. Around 2.5% of patients with scleroderma develop clinically significant primary biliary cholangitis, however, antibody studies suggest that subclinical disease may be present in as many as 15%...
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Choledocholithiasis and cholecystolithiasis
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13 Oct 2010
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MRI
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Gallbladder adenocarcinoma
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20 Oct 2010
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MRI
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Hemobilia
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20 Oct 2010
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CT
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Primary biliary cholangitis
Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a chronic progressive cholestatic liver disease that is the cause of 1-2% of deaths from cirrhosis and constitutes the third most common indication for liver transplantation in adults.
Terminology
The name of this disease was changed from primary biliary ci...
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Biliary tree anatomical variant - biliary trifurcation
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12 Dec 2010
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MRI
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Hemobilia
Hemobilia refers to the presence of blood in the biliary tree.
Clinical presentation
The classical Quincke triad, is seen with hemobilia in the context of hepatic arterial aneurysms, and consists of:
melena (i.e. upper gastrointestinal bleeding)
jaundice
abdominal pain
Pathology
Etiology
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Cystic duct calculus
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02 Feb 2011
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Ultrasound
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Caroli disease
Caroli disease and Caroli syndrome are congenital disorders comprising of multifocal cystic dilatation of segmental intrahepatic bile ducts. However, some series show that extrahepatic duct involvement may exist. They are also classified as a type V choledochal cyst, according to the Todani clas...
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Choledochal cysts - type IVa
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30 Nov 2012
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CT
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Sphincter of Oddi
The sphincter of Oddi (also known as the sphincter of ampulla or choledochal sphincter) is a complex of four smooth muscle sphincters within the duodenal wall. It surrounds, and helps fix to the duodenum, the duct of Wirsung, common bile duct and the ampulla of Vater 1,2.
When relaxed it allow...
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Low cystic duct insertion
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22 Sep 2015
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CT
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Choledochal cyst - type I
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01 Oct 2018
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MRI
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Kasai classification of biliary atresia (diagram)
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22 May 2019
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Diagram