IN recent years, surgeons who operate upon patients for biliary-tract disease have become increasingly aware of the significant role of obstruction of the common duct at the sphincter of Oddi. This ...

A: Ampullary tumors historically presented late, with jaundice, bleeding, relapsing pancreatitis, or duodenal obstruction, and were treated with radical pancreaticoduodenectomy and, less commonly, ...

A Review of Recent Data in the Treatment of Gallbladder Cancer: What We Know, What We Do, and What Should Be Done Most ampullary carcinomas are adenocarcinomas, but the histology varies with tumors ...

Periampullary tumors in patients affected by Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF-1) are usually carcinoids or stromal tumors and, rarely, adenocarcinomas. We report a case of an adenocarcinoma of the ampulla ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband was diagnosed with ampullary cancer. He has a tumor the size of a marble. We are told this is an aggressive cancer. My concern is that they are giving him chemotherapy ...