Gastroenterology

Biliary Tract Disorders

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How long do you continue antibiotics after cholecystostomy tube placement for acute cholecystitis?

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly we see management of acute cholecystitis with cholecystostomy tubes as opposed to surgery, even amongst pati...

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How do you manage patients with suspected cholangiocarcinoma that presents with biliary obstruction but has repeated negative brushings/biopsies?

Is liquid biopsy helpful? Would you treat if this shows somatic mutation?

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How would you approach a patient with imaging and labs suggestive of potentially resectable cholangiocarcinoma when several core biopsies reveal bridging fibrosis with no malignant cells?

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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2015-08-20

SWOG S0809: A Phase II Intergroup Trial of Adjuvant Capecitabine and Gemcitabine Followed by Radiotherapy and Concurrent Capecitabine in Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Carcinoma.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2012-01

Polysomy and p16 deletion by fluorescence in situ hybridization in the diagnosis of indeterminate biliary strictures.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2012 Feb

Diagnostic accuracy of conventional and cholangioscopy-guided sampling of indeterminate biliary lesions at the time of ERCP: a prospective, long-term follow-up study.

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Biliary Tract Disorders

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