title: [Caroli's disease associated with cholangiocarcinoma. A case of our own observation].
abstract: The authors report a case of Caroli's disease associated with cholangiocarcinoma. The patient presented with pain and jaundice and ultrasonography disclosed multiple common bile duct stones, cystic dilatation of the extrahepatic biliary tree and a mass in the right lobe of the liver. At operation, after a frozen section demonstrated cholangiocarcinoma, a common bile duct exploration, right hepatic lobectomy and hepato-jejunostomy were performed. They review the literature on the subject and stress the fact that hepatic tumors are associated with Caroli's disease in 7% of cases. Therefore, in these patients, when a stenosis of the biliary tree is found, multiple diagnostic manoeuvres are indicated in order to exclude the presence of malignancy.
authors.affiliation: II Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea, La Spezia.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Falco
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nardini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Celoria
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Briglia
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stefani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gadducci
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Belloni
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic / Q000601:surgery; D016767:Caroli Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D018281:Cholangiocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Malattia di Caroli associata a colangiocarcinoma. Un caso di nostra osservazione.