Symptoms typically start when the cancerous tumor blocks the bile duct. The most common symptom of bile duct cancer is ...

Gallstones may or may not cause symptoms. Small tubes transport bile from the gallbladder and deposit it in the common bile duct. From there, it moves to the small intestine. Sometimes ...

When bile duct cancer cells were placed in the liver of animals with bile duct obstruction, they grew more rapidly than identical cells placed in animals without bile duct obstruction. When bile ...

Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Springfield, Mass., October 2, 1925.

As the common bile duct and pancreatic duct are adjacent to one another in the duodenal papilla, pancreatitis secondary to biliary tract obstruction is a common cause; alcohol abuse is another ...

In the earliest stages, there may be no symptoms. In fact, at diagnosis, about 60% of people don't have any signs of the ...

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...