This is an area—located at the junction of the neck of the gallbladder and the cystic duct—where gallstones commonly become ...

Included in this prospective study cohort were all patients with CBDS and gallbladder stones treated ... In the majority of LTSE patients, the cystic duct was narrow and needed to be dilated.

The gallbladder is connected to this main duct via another small channel called the cystic duct. As it progresses, the tumor mass develops in the internal cavity of the organ but can also expand ...

When gallstones block the cystic duct from the gallbladder, bile cannot flow readily into the digestive tract. When the gallbladder becomes inflamed, a painful condition called cholecystitis can ...

LTSE is feasible and should be chosen as the first therapeutics, whereas LC should be restricted to large, multiple stones that cannot be extracted through the cystic duct. Postoperative T-tube ...

The bile ducts are a series of tubes that reach from the liver to the small intestine. The bile ducts move bile from the liver and the gallbladder to the small intestine where it helps digest the fats ...

Initial upper abdominal sonography had shown a large, cystic abdominal process ... in the infundibulum of the gallbladder had compromised the common hepatic duct pointed to the diagnosis of ...