title: Noninvasive Imaging of the Biliary Tree for the Interventional Radiologist.
abstract: Patients with suspected biliary tract disease often pose a diagnostic challenge to the clinician and radiologist. Although advances across all imaging modalities, including ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance, have improved our diagnostic accuracy for biliary disease, many of the imaging findings remain nonspecific. Recognition of key imaging findings combined with knowledge and understanding of the clinical context is essential to piecing together a diagnosis and guiding management for patients with biliary disease. Although there is a wide range of biliary pathology, interventional radiologists most commonly play a role in the management of biliary obstruction and leak.
authors.affiliation: Section of Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. Electronic address: feldmam2@ccf.org.
authors.forename: Myra K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Feldman
authors.affiliation: Section of Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
authors.forename: Christopher P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Coppa
mesh_terms: D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D001662:Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D049448:Cholangiopancreatography, Magnetic Resonance; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D019160:Endosonography; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D015641:Radiography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: Biliary imaging; bile leak; biliary obstruction; biliary stricture