BACKGROUND B-mode-ultrasound-guided percutaneous cholecystostomy(PC)may be performed by a transhepatic or transperitoneal approach,called percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage(PHGD)and percutaneous transperit...
BACKGROUND Although cholecystectomy is the standard treatment modality,it has been shown that perioperative mortality is approaching 19 To in critical and elderly patients.Percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) can be cons...
Aims and Objectives: To assess efficacy and safety of percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) in high risk patients with acute cholecystitis. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out in high risk patients with acute...
Malignant biliary obstruction is commonly caused by gall bladder carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma and metastatic nodes. Percutaneous interventions play an important role in managing these patients. Biliary drainage, whic...
Endoscopic ultrasound(EUS) has emerged as an important diagnostic and therapeutic modality in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy. EUS provides access to many organs and lesions which are in proximity to the gastr...
Gallbladder perforation(GBP) is a rare but serious complication of cholecystitis and needs to be managed promptly. Acalculus cholecystitis leading to GBP is frequently associated with enteric fever and found in critic...
Pancreatic tuberculosis(TB) is a rare condition,even in immunocompetent hosts.A case is presented of pancreatic TB that mimicked pancreatic head carcinoma in a 40-year-old immunocompetent male patient.The patient was ...
Introduction: Roux-en-Y Hepatico-jejunostomy is the standard technique of biliary reconstruction after excision of choledochal cyst. Here the author describes a new surgical technique of biliary reconstruction using n...
AIM:To evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous imagingguided biliary interventions in the management of acute biliary disorders in high surgical risk patients.METHODS:One hundred and twenty two patients underwent 139 pe...
The gold-standard management of acute cholecystitis is cholecystectomy.Surgical intervention may be contraindicated due to permanent causes.To date,the classical approach is percutaneous cholecystostomy in patients un...