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Endocrine cancer of the extrahepatic bile duct – case report
P Sahin, J Pozsár, G Illyés, F László, K Karlinger, J Kun-Gazda, L Topa · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2005 · Heft 05
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2005
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Endocrine tumours arising from the extrahepatic biliary ductal system are rare with a 0.2–2% frequency of all extrahepatic neoplasms. At this time, 34 cases of such endocrine tumours had been described. Among these neoplasms, only 17 cases were cancers. The most frequent clinical and biochemical signs of these cancers were jaundice, right subcostal pain and elevation in cholestatic liver enzyme levels. Preoperatively, cholangiography and CT-scan were found to be highly non-specific for the final diagnosis; however, these diagnostic procedures had been preformed in less than 6% of all cases. Percutaneous needle b…
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Cholangiography
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Bismuth
Biopsy
Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
