Cholangiocarcinoma or Caroli disease: a case presentation
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Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of cholangiocarcinoma is problematic. Cross sectional imaging and tumor marker CA 19-9 are not absolutely reliable and tissue sampling is difficult. We present a patient with cholangitis and cystic dilation of intra-hepatic bile ducts that primarily diagnosed as Caroli's disease in imaging and needle biopsy but laparotomy and surgical biopsy revealed cholangiocarcinoma.
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Corresponding author : Haeryoung Kim Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 82 Gumi-ro 173-beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-707, Korea Tel. +82 31-787-7715, Fax. +82 31-787-4012 E-mail; [email protected] Abbreviations: BilIN, biliary intraepithelial neoplasia; CD, Caroli's disease; CHF, congenital hepatic fibrosis...
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