To understand bile duct cancer, it helps to know about the bile ducts and what they normally do. Bile is a fluid made in your liver and stored in your gallbladder. Your bile ducts are a series of thin ...
Rituals seem to be declining in modern life. Finding ways to gather together meaningfully can help us combat loneliness, pain, and division. Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ...
What is an upper GI endoscopy? An upper GI endoscopy or EGD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy) is a procedure to diagnose and treat problems in your upper GI (gastrointestinal) tract. The upper GI tract ...
The Whipple procedure (also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy) is the primary surgical treatment for pancreatic cancer that occurs within the head of the gland. During this procedure, surgeons remove ...
To assess the effect of ectopic expression of pancreatic and duodenal homeobox gene 1 (PDX-1) in liver, we delivered AdCMV–PDX-1 recombinant adenovirus 12 (encoding the rat homolog of PDX-1) to 11–14 ...
1. A- Abdominal ultrasound: duodenal cholecystolithiasis (arrow) and a nonspecific duodenal solid mass (*) measuring 5.0 x 4.9 cm. B- Endoscopic view: bulging formation with a normal mucosa close to ...
An antrum is a chamber or cavity within the body. There are a number of different types of antra within each human body. They serve a unique and important purpose for every location they belong in.
Department of Clinical Physiology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Dr J-D Schulzke, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Medizinische ...