title: Cholangiocarcinoma associated with hypercalcaemia and ascites presenting as sclerosing cholangitis.
abstract: This report tells of a patient presenting with apparent primary sclerosing cholangitis which turned out to be a cholangiocarcinoma. The patient also had ascites and hypercalcaemia, both of which have not been described before in association with cholangiocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Ipswich Hospital, Suffolk.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: D'Costa
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001201:Ascites / Q000150:complications*; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic; D018281:Cholangiocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D015209:Cholangitis, Sclerosing / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male