When the bile ducts become blocked, bile builds up in the liver, and jaundice (yellow color of the skin) develops due to the increasing level of bilirubin in the blood. The possible causes of a blocked bile duct include:Cysts of the common bile duct.Enlarged lymph nodes inthe porta hepati...
Biliary strictures can be cancerous or benign. A benign stricture can occur as a result of surgical injury or trauma, pancreas inflammation, scarring or hardening of bile duct tissue caused bychronic inflammation, recurrent gallstones or poor reconnection of tissues post-liver transplantation. A bil...
Pancreatic cancer (PC) has an extremely poor overall prognosis, but patients with high-grade precancerous lesions (PHP) of the pancreas that have not progressed to invasive carcinoma show a favorable five-year survival rate. To identify and diagnose patients requiring intervention, a PHP-based ...