Primary sclerosing cholangitis, the biliary tree, and ulcerative colitis.

CT of the extrahepatic bile ducts: wall thickness and contrast enhancement in normal and abnormal ducts.

“…The cholangiographic findings of bile duct wall irregularities, diverticula, and nodules are well known [1 6], and these changes may contribute to the thickening of the duct wall evident on CT [5]. Histopathologic examination reveals nonspecific, chronic inflammatory change and fibrosis within the walls of the bile duct [14,17,18].…”

Juvenile hypertrophic osteoarthropathy associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis

“…The diagnosis is difficult to make and there is no known effective therapy (8). Definitive diagnostic criteria include the presence of progressive obstructive jaundice, generalized thickening and sclerosis of the bile ducts, absence of gall stones or previous biliary surgery, and exclusion of sclerosing cholangiocarcinoma by laparotomy or adequate followup (9)(10). In this case, neither laparotomy nor autopsy was performed, but a survival of 4 years would be very unusual with cholangiocarcinoma.…”

“…Sclerosing cholangitis has been described in association with chronic ulcerative colitis, regional enteritis, and fibrosing processes elsewhere such as retroperitoneal fibrosis, mediastinal fibrosis, Riedel's struma, and retrorbital tumors (10)(11)(12)(13). None of these conditions were present in this case until 1 month before death, when nonspecific proctitis developed possibly representing late appearing ulcerative proctitis.…”

Histological Changes in Human Gallbladder in Pathological Condition Including Cholecystitis and Cholelithiasis an Analytical Study

“…Scattered lipids were found in other cells and tissues of gall bladder wall [17] (Fig.14). These results are comparable with the result of Hopwood D, English M, Gilloteaux J et al [32,31] .…”

“…In the present study, it was found that accumulation of phospholipidswas in epithelial cells predominantly in supranuclear region. [16,17] (Fig.14 specified in figure legend).…”