title: [Adenomatosis of the bile ducts as a rare cause of cholestasis].
abstract: Biliary obstruction of uncertain aetiology in a 69-year-old women led to a cholecystectomy and exploration of the bile tract: a nearly complete cast of the hepatic ducts and intrahepatic bile ducts was extracted. Histological examination of the gall bladder and liver biopsy failed to provide a diagnosis, but a bile duct biopsy taken at the time of an endoscopic retrograde cholangiography revealed the diagnosis of papillomatosis. This disease has a poor prognosis because there is no known cure.
authors.affiliation: Innere Abteilung, St. Elisabeth-Krankenhaus, Hattingen.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rabast
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Padel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rammert
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Helwing
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Klinge
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010212:Papilloma / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Adenomatose der Gallenwege als seltene Ursache einer Cholestase.