Needle-knife techniques and EUS-RV may be optimal strategies for difficult biliary cannulation in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

Gallbladder cancer is a rare and often aggressive malignancy that develops in the tissues of the gallbladder — a small, ...

The procedure of endoscopic removal of stone and blockage from the bile duct, followed by placement of Common Bile Duct (CBD) ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatographies (ERCPs) performed on patients in the left lateral or supine position had shorter procedure times, largely due to reduced endotracheal intubation rates, ...

Your doctor uses a long flexible tube with a small camera and light at the end, called an endoscope. It's also sometimes called a duodenoscope. They pass this tube through your mouth, throat, stomach ...

ERCP is a procedure that helps diagnose and treat problems in the bile ducts using a camera device. You should not eat or drink for eight hours before an ERCP. While sedated, you will not feel pain ...

A large national survey of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) practitioners and units, including organisational characteristics, revealed the persistence of low-volume practitioners ...

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Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an uncomfortable procedure that uses an endoscope and X rays to visualize problems with patients’ bile and pancreatic ducts. An endoscope is a ...