Definition of Cholangiography

1. Noun. Roentgenographic examination of the bile ducts after a contrast medium has been injected.


Definition of Cholangiography

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Medical Definition of Cholangiography

1. Roentgenography of the biliary ducts after administration or injection of a contrast medium, orally, intravenously or percutaneously. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cholangiography

cholane
cholaneresis
cholanes
cholangeitis
cholangiectasis
cholangiocarcinoma
cholangiocarcinomarcinoma
cholangiocarcinomas
cholangiocyte
cholangiocytes
cholangioenterostomy
cholangiofibrosis
cholangiogastrostomy
cholangiogram
cholangiograms
cholangiography (current term)
cholangiole
cholangiolitic cirrhosis
cholangiolitic hepatitis
cholangiolitis
cholangioma
cholangiopancreatography
cholangiopathies
cholangiopathy
cholangioscopy
cholangiostomy
cholangiotomy
cholangitic abscess
cholangitides
cholangitis

Literary usage of Cholangiography

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Digestive Diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact edited by James E. Everhart (1995)
"Primary sclerosing cholangitis: a review of its clinical features, cholangiography, and hepatic histology. Gut 1980,21:870-7. 262. Schrumpf E, Fausa O, ..."

2. Management & Therapy of Sickle Cell Disease edited by Clarice D. Reid, Samuel Charace, Bertram Lubin (1997)
"If obstruction is suspected or if liver function tests are significantly more abnormal than before the attack, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERCP) ..."

3. Health Care Technology And Its Assessment In Eight Countries by Henry David Banta (1995)
"Routine in- traoperative cholangiography has declined by 66 percent since the introduction of laparoscopie cholecystectomy. It has been suggested that ..."

4. Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries by Henry David Banta, United States Congress. Office of Technology Assessment (1995)
"Routine in- traoperative cholangiography has declined by 66 percent since the introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. It has been suggested that ..."

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