Sentence examples for duct branches from inspiring English sources

The tensegrity structure, therefore, will need to provide enough flexibility to allow the robot to turn right, left, up, down, and in any other intermediate direction so the robot can change its path into other duct branches.

Biliary leaks have been classified by Nagano et al. [16] into four types: Type A, minor leaks from small bile radicles on the surface of the liver; Type B, leaks from inadequate closure of the major bile duct branches on the liver's surface; Type C, injury to the main duct commonly near the hilum; Type D, leakage due to a transected duct disconnected from the main duct.

Infiltration beyond the second order bile duct branches in both lobes of the liver.

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma arises from small intrahepatic bile duct branches and invades adjacent liver parenchyma [ 1, 7, 9, 14, 15, 19].

Criteria for tumor unresectability include [ 4, 8– 10, 31, 34]: Infiltration beyond the second order bile duct branches in both lobes of the liver.

The diagnosis of SSC-CIP was based on typical findings on endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC), such as the presence of casts or destruction of intrahepatic bile duct branches.

But babies must get their vitamin D from mother's milk, and Hlusko posits that the increased mammary duct branching may have been a way of delivering more vitamin D and the fat that goes with it.

Loss of adipose tissue initiated 2 weeks after birth triggers fewer duct branching points and fewer terminal end buds (TEBs) and also triggers changes in proliferation and apoptosis in the epithelium associated with the TEBs.

Imaging studies were reviewed by an experienced radiologist who was blinded to the pathologic results, and studies were categorized as main duct, branch duct, or combined-duct.

The most important variant of intrahepatic bile duct branching clinically is the presence of an aberrant right posterior sectoral duct draining into the common hepatic duct or cystic duct in 5% of the population.

The most common anatomic variant of intrahepatic bile duct branching, occurring in 13-19% of the population [15, 17] is drainage of the right anterior or posterior duct into the left hepatic duct (Fig. 7).