Secondary sclerosing cholangitis (SSC) is a chronic cholestatic biliary disease, characterized by inflammation, obliterative fibrosis of the bile ducts, stricture formation and progressive ...

The time period from the primary leakage to the development of the biliary stricture was 42 days in the peripheral leakage group, as well as 78 and 97 days in the central leakage group.

The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with marked proximal dilation. However, some authors have suggested that cholangiographic appearance of a biliary stricture is not ...

The stricture was soft and seemed to dilate readily ... and acute and chronic inflammation of the biliary-duct system. Sections of the lung revealed widely dilated alveolar capillaries, some ...