Extrahepatic bile duct cancer is an uncommon disease, and few cases are curable by surgery.We report a case of extrahepatic biliary cystadenocarcinoma (BCAC) associated with atrophy of the left hepatic lobe.A 54-year old male was admitted with painless obstructive jaundice and a hepatic palpable mass noticed one month before presentation.Liver func

The land locked and underdeveloped country of Laos presents a scenario in early 1960s that almost brought the world on the brink of a major war.Compared to the contemporaneous Berlin Wall Crisis and Cuban Missile crisis, the events in Laos had been pushed back by scholars without it receiving much attention.The Lao imbroglio was accentuated after t

Voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels regulate the membrane potential and conductance of excitable cells to control the firing rate and waveform of action potentials.Even though Kv channels have been intensely studied for over 70 year, surprisingly little is known about how specific channels expressed in various neurons and their functional propert