The British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of cholangiocarcinoma were originally published in 2002.
Dr Shahid Khan and colleagues from the United Kingdom updated these guidelines.
The researchers performed a comprehensive review.
|This is the first update since 2002|
The team reviewed the recent literature published since 2002.
The research team evaluated data from randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, cohort, prospective and retrospective studies.
Dr Khan and colleagues commented, "We updated the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of cholangiocarinoma by performing a comprehensive literature review."
"This is the first update since 2002."