biliary ducts

In biliary ducts, flukes mature, feed on blood, and produce eggs.

The flukes feed on the lining of biliary ducts.

The swelling is capable of blocking nearby biliary ducts, leading to diffuse cholestasis.

Hepatolithiasis is the presence of gallstones in the biliary ducts of the liver.

The caudal end of the stomach receives two biliary ducts, one on each side of the intestine.

While normally asymptomatic most pathological manifestations result from inflammation and intermittent obstruction of the biliary ducts.

For example: "...Immature eggs are discharged in the biliary ducts and in the stool.

The second phase (the biliary phase) begins when parasites enter the biliary ducts of the liver.

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is an enzyme in the cells lining the biliary ducts of the liver.

Type V or Caroli's disease: Cystic dilatation of intra hepatic biliary ducts.

Bile in the biliary ducts and the gallbladder often contains bacteria and the bacterial product lipopolysaccharide (LPS).

Conjugated bilirubin appears in urine when the normal degradation cycle is altered due to the obstruction of the biliary ducts or when the kidney's functional integrity is damaged.

The metacercariae exist in the small intestine, and move through the intestinal wall and peritoneal cavity to the liver where adults mature in the biliary ducts of the liver.

Discrete localized enlargements of normal structures (ureters, blood vessels, intrahepatic or extrahepatic biliary ducts, pulmonary inclusions, or gastrointestinal duplications) due to outflow obstructions or narrowings, or abnormal connections, may also present as a tumor.

Biliary dyskinesia refers to altered tonus of the sphincter of Oddi (usually increased pressure), disturbance in the coordination of contraction of the biliary ducts, and/or reduction in the speed of emptying of the biliary tree.

Apparently cystic abnormalities within the biliary ducts of several of the present patients do not appear to have been recognised in other contexts: it is suggested that these too are a constituent of the radiology of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis.