Yepuri, MD Bile duct cancer, also known as cholangiocarcinoma ... making the stool appear lighter in color. Bile and pancreatic juices help the body digest fatty foods. The body cannot break ...

Obstructive jaundice is often the first symptom of malignant disease of the pancreas (for example, pancreatic ampullary carcinoma and carcinoma of the papilla of Vater). As jaundice increases, it ...

A duodenal stricture complicates biliary stent placement in 10–20% of patients with distal biliary obstruction due to pancreatic cancer. When both strictures are considered, a biliary stent can ...

Cancers can develop in any part of the bile duct system. Physicians in the Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center offer compassionate, patient-centered care and the ...

Sian Ashcroft passed away last year aged 35 just 18 days after she was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a form of bile duct cancer ... for surgery to insert a stent in her bile duct.

Moss took to Instagram in December to reveal that he is a "cancer ... bile duct — commonly known as a Whipple procedure. Moss had previously went under the knife on Thanksgiving to have a stent ...

Bile duct cancer, or cholangiocarcinoma, is a malignant tumour of either the bile ducts within the liver (intrahepatic), or those leading from the liver to the small intestine (extrahepatic).

How pancreatic cancer causes jaundice ... then a gastroenterologist will do an ERCP and put a stent inside bile duct to decrease the jaundice and prepare the patient for surgery.

The global biliary stent market was valued ... including an increase in biliary duct disorders and a growing elderly population. According to Statista, distant metastasis was the most common form of ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When double-stent placement (duodenal and biliary) is considered, biliary stent placement can be performed either preceding or following ...