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)

  Diagnosis not applicable
Frank Gaillard
Published 11 Jan 2010
22% complete
Diagram
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Choledochal cyst - type I

  Diagnosis certain
Hani Makky Al Salam
Published 12 Jan 2010
82% complete
MRI
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Aerobilia (pneumobilia)

  Diagnosis certain
Dr Ruslan Asadov
Published 14 Jan 2010
77% complete
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

  Diagnosis certain
G Balachandran
Published 13 Oct 2010
91% complete
MRI
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Gallbladder adenocarcinoma

  Diagnosis probable
The Radswiki
Published 20 Oct 2010
46% complete
MRI
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Hemobilia

  Diagnosis probable
The Radswiki
Published 20 Oct 2010
45% complete
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

  Diagnosis not applicable
Hani Makky Al Salam
Published 12 Dec 2010
50% complete
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

  Diagnosis almost certain
Maulik S Patel
Published 02 Feb 2011
66% complete
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

  Diagnosis certain
Mohammadtaghi Niknejad
Published 30 Nov 2012
92% complete
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

  Diagnosis certain
Henry Knipe
Published 22 Sep 2015
92% complete
CT
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Choledochal cyst - type I

  Diagnosis almost certain
Thomas M. Anderson
Published 01 Oct 2018
71% complete
MRI
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Kasai classification of biliary atresia (diagram)

  Diagnosis not applicable
David Nicholson Thomas
Published 22 May 2019
32% complete
Diagram

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