Obstructive jaundice is often the first symptom of malignant disease of the pancreas (for example, pancreatic ampullary carcinoma and carcinoma of the papilla of Vater). As jaundice increases, it ...

A recent trial concluded that preoperative biliary drainage (PBD ... need treatment in regional pancreatic cancer centers using low-occlusion metal stents. The authors also decided to include ...

Doctors removed the stent a few ... part of the bile duct, the gallbladder, and some surrounding lymph nodes. EXCLUSIVE: Iowa dad, 39, with stage four pancreatic cancer nearly loses access to ...

The Saint Louis University Center for Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases has been officially designated by the National Pancreas Foundation as a pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer center of excellence.

How pancreatic cancer causes jaundice ... then a gastroenterologist will do an ERCP and put a stent inside bile duct to ...