INTRAVENOUS cholangiography with iodipamide sodium was introduced in clinical medicine in 1953 as a method for rapid high contrast visualization of the biliary ducts and gall bladder. 1 An abundant ...

Pain in the upper right quadrant of your abdomen may come from your biliary system, or the organs that produce and distribute bile to help you digest food. It may originate in your gallbladder, liver, ...

The etiologies of the 56 children with acute pancreatitis are listed in Table 1. The most frequent cause of acute pancreatitis was drugs (30%), followed by biliary disease (29%), idiopathic (12%), ...

To examine whether apoptotic cell death contributes to the failure of biliary development in Hes1 −/− mice, we carried out TUNEL staining of the hypoplastic bile ducts. We found no more apoptotic ...

Background A 34-year-old Hispanic woman at 34 weeks' gestation presented with upper-abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting of 1 day's duration. She had no active medical problems and had undergone two ...

There was a rise in the cases of cancers of liver, gall bladder and pancreas in Mumbai during 2014, according to a report by Mumbai Cancer Registry. Mumbai: There was a rise in the cases of cancers of ...

WASHINGTON – Surgeons successfully removed Attorney General John Ashcroft's (search) gallbladder on Tuesday to prevent a recurrence of the gallstone-caused pancreatitis (search) that sent him to ...

Doctors can test for gallbladder issues using a combination of physical exams, blood tests, and imaging studies. Several issues can affect the gallbladder, including gallstones, inflammation, or ...