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Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is defined as a partial or complete occlusion of the blood flow within the portal vein by an intraluminal thrombus. Balfour and Stewart first described this process in the literature in 1868 in a patient who…
Overview The first successful common bile duct exploration (CBDE) by Thornton in 1889 and the introduction of catheter-based biliary decompression by Courvoisier and Kehr marked the initial efforts in treating choledocholithiasis. Open cholecystectomy and bile duct exploration were performed commonly…