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Shining a Light on Biliary Cancers: The challenge of cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer
February is National Cancer Awareness Month, a time to amplify discussions on lesser- known but equally devastating ...
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Liver cancer survivor fronts campaign calling for better care
Cholangiocarcinoma, the second most common form of liver ... As he was admitted to a liver ward for a CT scan and biopsy, he was brought back to the ward. He said: “I was taken into a side room where ...
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Management of Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma in the Era of Multimodal Therapy
The Bismuth–Corlette classification system provides an anatomic description of the tumor location and longitudinal extension in the biliary tree (Figure 3). It is limited due to its failure to ...
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Differential Diagnosis of Intrahepatic Bile Duct Dilatation Without Demonstrable Mass On Ultrasonography or CT: Benign Versus Malignancy
Hong Joo Kim; Kyu Taek Lee; Seung Hoon Kim; Jong Kyun Lee; Jae Hoon Lim; Seung Woon Paik; Jong Chul Rhee Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is usually evident on cholangiogram, but the intrahepatic ...
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Posthepatitic Cirrhosis Clinically Simulating Extrahepatic Biliary Obstruction (So-Called Primary Biliary Cirrhosis)
This investigation of 23 patients with the clinical syndrome of "primary biliary cirrhosis" was undertaken ... 17–19 and 21), tissues from both biopsy and autopsy were studied.