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. 1997 Aug;41(2):135–137. doi: 10.1136/gut.41.2.135

Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography

P BEARCROFT 1, D LOMAS 1
PMCID: PMC1891464  PMID: 9301488

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: An oblique sagittal MRCP projection image obtained in a 16 second breath-hold in a 72 year old man with obstructive jaundice owing to multiple common duct calculi, confirmed at ERCP. 


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: A 41 year old man with multiple hilar biliary strictures secondary to right hepatic artery occlusion. (A) Coronal MRCP image obtained in a 16 second breath-hold which demonstrates the strictures and the dilated obstructed left biliary ducts (arrows) not visualised on (B) the corresponding ERCP examination. 


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: A 48 year old man with severe chronic pancreatitis. An axial image from his MRCP examination demonstrates the abnormally dilated main duct and side branch ducts in the pancreatic tail (arrows) which could not be demonstrated at ERCP. 


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