Radiology of excessive mucus production as a complication of congenital bile duct abnormalities.
Biliary obstruction was caused by viscid mucus in two patients with congenital bile duct abnormalities. In one patient this produced a progressive dilatation and obstruction of the common bile duct which eventually led to the patient's death; in the other there was a progressive segmental dilatation of the biliary tree which was surgically resected. We wish to emphasize that bile duct mucus has a characteristic appearance on cholangiography but is difficult to recognize on ultrasound and CT scans.
Lindsay
K A
KA
St James's University Hospital, Leeds.
Hall
J R
JR
Chapman
A H
AH
D000328:Adult; D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000378:metabolism; D002758:Cholangiography; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009093:Mucus / Q000378:metabolism*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed