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Digital Surgical Diagnosis and Management of Cholecystolithiasis
The majority of cholecystolithiasis presents predominantly with cholesterol stones, whereas the remainder consists of mixed cholesterol and black pigment stones. Females have a higher prevalence of cholecystol...
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Applied Anatomy of the Biliary Tract
Since prevention of injury is of paramount importance, a thorough familiarity with the anatomy and related research methodologies of the biliary system is essential. The technologies developed to produce both ...
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Application of Indocyanine Green Fluorescent Imaging in Biliary Surgery
Molecular imaging (MI) is a comprehensive interdisciplinary subject that is the product of the combination of medical imaging technology and modern molecular biology. It involves the qualitative and quantitati...
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Digital Surgical Diagnosis and Management of Extrahepatic Cholelithiasis
Extrahepatic cholelithiasis is a frequently occurring biliary tract disease in China. It commonly manifests by obstruction of the common bile duct and leads to acute cholangitis; if not treated in a timely man...
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Application of 3D Visualization Technology in Perihilar Surgery
The Perihilar area is a complex region where bile ducts, portal veins, hepatic arteries, lymphatics, and nerves intertwine often in an unpredictable way. Anatomical variation is common and the spatial relation...
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Virtual Surgical Instruments and Surgical Simulation
Rapid advances in modern biliary surgery are inseparable from the evolution of science and technology and their applications in medicine. In recent years, computer technology has been increasingly applied in t...
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Application of Endoscopic Techniques in Biliary Tract Surgery
In 1806, German physician Philip Bozzini invented an optical device that used a candle as a light source to inspect the interior of the bladder and rectum (Bozzini 1806), which was historically recorded as the...
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Digital Surgical Diagnosis and Management of Hepatolithiasis
Hepatolithiasis refers to stones that originated from the intrahepatic biliary system, which can exist alone or coexist with extrahepatic bile duct stones. As a common biliary tract disease that is difficult t...
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3D Visual Diagnosis and Management of Bile Duct Injuries
Bile duct injuries refer to any damages to the original structure of the biliary system and abdominal changes in the flow of bile caused by traumatic or iatrogenic factors. Iatrogenic bile duct injuries are at...
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Imaging of Common Biliary Tract Diseases
Both CT and MR imaging can be crucial for the final diagnosis of most biliary diseases, with both modalities allowing localization diagnosis, qualitative diagnosis, and detailed evaluation of the biliary tract...
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Digital Diagnosis and Management of Cholangiocarcinoma
Cancer of biliary duct can be divided into intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ECC). ECC is further divided into hilar cholangiocarcinoma and distal cholangiocarcinoma ba...
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Application of 3D Printing Technology in Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
Although 3D printing was already proposed in the nineteenth century to produce topographic maps layer by layer, the first real attempts to generate objects that way were made in the 1980s. Swainson of Denmark ...
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Application of 3D Visualization for Blood Supply of Extrahepatic Bile Ducts
In the twenty-first century, primary research in biliary tract surgery has realized remarkable achievements with the tremendous advances of related sciences such as molecular biology, molecular genetics, medic...
