Apart from cancer gallstones can also cause the gallbladder to swell if it blocks the cystic duct or bile duct.
Blocked bile duct pancreatic cancer.
The bile chemicals will also build up in the body which can cause jaundice nausea vomiting and other problems.
Cirrhosis may develop in bile duct cancer.
Signs include yellow skin and eyes dark colored urine and pale colored stools.
This may be due to the tumor obstructing the bile duct and causing liver cell destruction and scarring.
This stops the drainage of bile and or pancreatic fluid into the first part of the gut known as the duodenum.
Having a stent put in with an ercp.
This type of cancer develops from a cell which becomes cancerous in the pancreatic duct.
Cancers growing in the head of the pancreas can block the common bile duct as it passes through this part of the pancreas.
This can cause pain and digestive problems because bile can t get into the intestine.
Jaundice usually occurs without abdominal pain.
If the cancer is diagnosed at an early stage treatment might work better.
Pancreatic cancers can cause a bile duct obstruction if the tumor enters.
It is more common elsewhere in the world.
Blood clots pancreatic cancer increases the risk of deep vein thrombosis dvt which is when a blood clot forms in a large vein often in the leg.
If the pancreatic cancer is blocking your bile duct and causing jaundice you may have a stent put into the bile duct.
Pancreatic cancer that blocks the liver s bile duct can cause jaundice.
It can block the bile duct or the main pancreatic duct.
This is especially true in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
A stent for a blocked bile duct is usually put in using a procedure called an endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography ercp.
When bile duct cancer does cause symptoms it s usually because a bile duct is blocked.
The resulting tumors may block a bile duct.
As the tumour enlarges.
As with pancreatic cancer bile duct cancer generally affects the older population and is more common in men than in women.
This multiplies and a tumour then develops in and around the duct.
Your doctor may recommend that a plastic or metal tube stent be placed inside the bile duct to hold it open.
Obstruction of the bile duct can lead to infection of the bile drainage system or cholangitis.
