Webs in the common bile duct (CBD) are rare. This report is of a patient who presented
with cholangitis caused by a CBD web that was managed with balloon dilatation and
antibiotics. The patient became asymptomatic within a week of the initiation of therapy
and remained so after 6 months follow-up.
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☆Reprint requests: Ravi Kottoor, MD, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Gastroenterology, St John's Medical College, Bangalore 560034, India.
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© 2001 American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
