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Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography imaging for diagnosing parasitic flukes

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Feb 3, 2026

What are the sensitivity and specificity of ERCP and imaging findings for diagnosing biliary versus pancreatic fluke infections in clinical series?

Published clinical literature does not include well-powered series that report numeric sensitivity and specificity of or cross-sectional imaging specifically for ; available evidence is composed mainl...

Jan 31, 2026

What are the diagnostic steps and role of ERCP versus surgery when a fluke is suspected in the pancreatic duct?

When a parasitic fluke is suspected to lie in the , clinicians follow a stepwise strategy that favors noninvasive imaging first (, , CT) and reserves principally as a therapeutic tool for extraction o...