occlusion of cystic duct

Emergency biliary surgery for acute obstructive cholecystitis in the elderly is associated with an increased hospital mortality… Expand

Recurrent cholelithiasis must be expected after gallstone removal without cholecystectomy. Chemical gallbladder ablation may… Expand

Ultrasonography of 53 patients with stones in either the common bile duct (CBD) or the gallbladder neck/cystic duct revealed… Expand

Cholescintigraphy with 99m-Tc labeled iminodiacetic acid (IDA) derivatives has proved to be extremely reliable in the evaluation… Expand

The hypothesis that the elements essential for the induction of acute cholecystitis are the presence of lithogenic bile and… Expand

Cholescintigraphy with N-substituted iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) labelled with technetium-99m is a new noninvasive technique for… Expand

In 460 cholecystectomies performed for acute cholecystitis 215 (47%) positive gallbladder bile cultures were obtained. In 73% of… Expand

A procedure was devised to quickly and reliably determine the patency of the cystic duct in patients suspected of having acute… Expand

The biliary tract excretion of three cephalosporins, cefazolin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin, was compared in patients with… Expand

We have studied seven patients with noncalculous partial cystic duct obstruction, a syndrome which has not been widely recognized… Expand