hepatobiliary

Advances in radiotherapy delivery in hepatobiliary and pancreatic malignancies

The role of targeted radiotherapy in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC) is constantly evolving. While there is uniform agreement across guidelines that patients with good performance status should receive chemotherapy as their first line of treatment, there is no consensus on how to manage patients with localised disease who do not have sufficient […]

Hannah Harford-Wright, Marina Khan, Kasia Owczarczyk

GenesisCare UK; Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Proximal biliary strictures: using PTC endobiliary biopsy to avoid unnecessary surgical exploration. The Queen Elizabeth Birmingham experience.

Proximal biliary strictures (PBS) are located at the liver hilum or within the proximal third of the extrahepatic bile duct. Patients with these lesions are most likely to present with painless jaundice and a blood profile consistent with biliary obstruction. The majority of proximal biliary strictures are due to cholangiocarcinoma; however 10-25% are related to […]

Dr Conor Aleman, Dr Homoyoon Mehzard

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

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