Among Medicare beneficiaries who underwent minimally invasive cholecystectomy from 2011 to 2021 as inpatients, surgical safety improved substantially, with rates of complications — such as bile duct ...

Laparoscopic hepatopancreatoduodenectomy (LHPD) is a while very complex procedure for biliary malignancies combined with intrahepatic bile duct invasion, but there are few reports of related surgeries ...

Pain is the most common symptom of a gallbladder problem. It can be mild and intermittent or quite severe and frequent. It may begin to radiate to other areas of the body, including the back and chest ...

This History Maker article was written by the coauthors in collaboration with Dr. John Cameron and is based on several detailed discussions with Dr. Cameron. The paper focuses on Dr. Cameron's ...

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Palliative care is supportive care. It's aimed at preventing and treating symptoms or problems caused by cancer. Palliative care is used with every type of cancer treatment at every stage of ...

Bypass Roux-en-Y choledochojejunostomy (RYCJ) can be a definitive treatment for intractable choledocholithiasis as it can prevent stone-producing bile stasis. RYCJ had been performed in a ...

Palliative care (also called supportive care) is treatment used to help control or reduce symptoms caused by cancer. It's not meant to cure the cancer. If bile duct cancer has spread too far to be ...

Ultra-short bowel syndrome (USBS) refers to a clinical condition characterized mainly by severe diarrhea and nutritional disorders caused by the residual small intestine length of <30 cm (1). After ...