Acronym	Definition
PTHC	Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
PTHC	Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography
PTHC	Peterborough Town Hockey Club (UK)
PTHC	Personal Touch Home Care, Inc.
PTHC	Pre-Teen Hard Core (illegal child pornography)
PTHC	Peripheral Thyroid Hormone Conversion
PTHC	Peters Township Hockey Club (Pennsylvania)
PTHC	Palm Trademark Holding Company
PTHC	pigmented terminal hair cysts
PTHC	Panning the Thames for Humble Contributions (Birchgrove Group)
PTHC	Pressure, Temperature, and Humidity Control
PTHC	Professional Tree Health Care, LLC (Bradley, WV)

References in periodicals archive

Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) conducted under fluoroscopic control in which a needle (the chiba or okuda) is advanced into the liver, contrast is injected and seen entering bile radicals.

Obstructive jaundice in gall bladder cancer and cholangiocarcinoma: management and outcome

Eight patients had internal catheters placed via percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) before being referred for endoscopy.

Endoscopic management of bile leaks after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Comparison of magnetic resonance cholangiography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography in the evaluation of bile duct strictures after cholecystectomy.

Surgical management of bile duct injuries following open or laparoscopic cholecystectomy

(8) Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) also has the potential to both diagnose and treat biliary disease; however, it, too, suffers from significant morbidity and mortality--up to 2.5% of patients.

Advances in biliary imaging utilizing MR and CT

Clinicians detected most of the bile leaks with HIDA scans, but they detected some during laparotomy, laparoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, or percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography. "If the patient had a negative HIDA scan, we did not find that the patients developed a bile leak after their initially negative HIDA scan," she said.

Suspect a bile leak when blunt liver injury requires embolization

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