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Cameron suggests a klatskin tumor obstructing his bile ducts.
Cholangiocarcinoma, Klatskin tumors, ascariasis, or oriental hepatitis are not exceptions to the law because they all fall under it.
Approximately 15,000 new cases of liver and biliary tract carcinoma are diagnosed annually in the United States, with roughly 10% of these cases being Klatskin tumors.
A cholangiocarcinoma occurring at the junction where the left and right hepatic ducts meet to form the common bile duct may be referred to eponymously as a Klatskin tumor.
A Klatskin tumor (or hilar cholangiocarcinoma) is a cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the biliary tree) occurring at the confluence of the right and left hepatic bile ducts.
An understanding of both the normal and varied vascular and ductal anatomy of the porta hepatis has increased the number of hepatic duct bifurcation tumors (Klatskin tumors) that can be resected.
Extended resections of hepatic duct bifurcation tumors (Klatskin tumors) to include adjacent liver, either by lobectomy or removal of portions of segments 4 and 5 of the liver, may be performed.
However, most patients with cholangiocarcinoma have no identifiable specific risk factors.
However, its ultimate role in the management of cholangiocarcinoma is unclear at present.
People with Caroli disease are 100 times more at risk for cholangiocarcinoma than the general population.
With a liver transplant, cholangiocarcinoma is usually avoided in the long run.
There are no specific blood tests that can diagnose cholangiocarcinoma by themselves.
Surgical resection offers the only potential chance of cure in cholangiocarcinoma.
The etiology of cholangiocarcinoma has not been clearly defined.
CA19-9 is elevated in most cases of cholangiocarcinoma.
He died of cholangiocarcinoma in Houston, Texas, at the age of 67.
The presence of gallstones (cholelithiasis) is not clearly associated with cholangiocarcinoma.
Cholangiocarcinoma can affect any area of the bile ducts, either within or outside the liver.
On the contrary, miR-26a is overexpressed in high-grade glioma and cholangiocarcinoma.
Of all cancers worldwide from 2002, 0.02% were cholangiocarcinoma caused by Opisthorchis viverrini.
Surgical exploration may be necessary to obtain a suitable biopsy and to accurately stage a patient with cholangiocarcinoma.
It usually has a pathological cause such as pancreatitis, cirrhosis, diverticulitis or cholangiocarcinoma.
This can progress to bile duct destruction, biliary cirrhosis, and sometimes cholangiocarcinoma.
On histological review, it was felt that these two tumours were more consistent with hepatocellular carcinoma than cholangiocarcinoma.
For example, long term results in patients with cholangiocarcinoma and hepatitis B infection have been disappointing, because of a high rate of disease recurrence.
In fact, cholangiocarcinoma means cancer of the biliary tree, the apparatus that drains the gall bladder.
The cause was cholangiocarcinoma, a rare cancer of the bile ducts, her brother Mark Furstenberg said.
Use of Thorotrast was abandoned when it was found to be a carcinogen, sometimes causing cholangiocarcinoma.
The mechanism by which PSC increases the risk of cholangiocarcinoma is not well understood.
However, they may be useful in conjunction with imaging methods in supporting a suspected diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma.
Computed tomography (CT) scanning may also play an important role in the diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma.
Surgery is also the only curative option for cholangiocarcinoma, although it is limited to patients with early-stage disease.
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