title: Traumatic neuroma of the bile duct causing cholangitis and atrophy of the right hepatic lobe.
abstract: Intraluminal traumatic neuromas are an unusual cause of bile duct obstruction. These benign collections of disorganized nerve fibers arise from a bile duct injury during cholecystectomy. Symptoms associated with obstruction or cholangitis may develop decades after the operation. Our patient's neuroma imitated a malignant neoplasm, but the patient has been returned to good health by resection of the right hepatic duct and the atrophic right hepatic lobe.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex. 77030.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Shumate
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Curley
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Cleary
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Ames
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001284:Atrophy; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000209:etiology*; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009463:Neuroma / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology