Two viruses, reovirus and rotavirus, have received increasing attention as possible inciters of an immune-mediated injury to the biliary tree. Fas ligand upregulation and apoptosis of bile duct ...

ERCP is used primarily to diagnose and treat conditions of the bile ducts and pancreas ... see the inside of the stomach and duodenum and inject dyes into the ducts in the biliary tree and pancreas so ...

The most frequently described causes of SSC are longstanding biliary obstruction, surgical trauma to the bile duct and ischemic injury to the biliary tree in liver allografts. SSC may also follow ...