Steroid acids and salts. The primary bile acids are derived from cholesterol in the liver and usually conjugated with glycine or taurine. The secondary bile acids are further modified by bacteria in the intestine. They play an important role in the digestion and absorption of fat. They have also been used pharmacologically, especially in the treatment of gallstones
Diseases in any part of the ductal system of the BILIARY TRACT from the smallest BILE CANALICULI to the largest COMMON BILE DUCT
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Bile Duct Diseases : Clinical hepatology. Volume 2, Principles and practice of hepatobiliary diseases / [edited by] Henryk Dancygier, with contributions by H.-D. Allescher [and others] ; foreword by Scott L. Friedman
2010
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Bile Duct Diseases -- diagnosis. : Diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts : diagnosis and treatment / edited by Pierre-Alain Clavien, John Baillie ; associate editors, Michael A. Morse, Markus Selzner
Bile Duct Diseases -- therapy. : Diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts : diagnosis and treatment / edited by Pierre-Alain Clavien, John Baillie ; associate editors, Michael A. Morse, Markus Selzner
Bile Duct Neoplasms -- pathology : Neoplasms of the biliary tract : radiologic and pathologic correlations / Jae Hoon Lim, Kee-Taek Jang, Jung Hoon Kim
