title: Intraductal papillary mucinous tumor of bile ducts radiologic and pathologic features: a case report.
abstract: We report a case of a 67-year-old Caucasian man with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. He underwent radiologic investigations that revealed a solid, focal mass, at the V hepatic segment. Because a definitive diagnosis, based on imaging appearance of the lesion, was impossible in our case, we performed a hystopathological investigation but the biopsies were inconclusive. So, the definitive diagnosis of intraductal papillary mucinous tumor of bile ducts was made on surgical resected material.Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the liver (IPNL) is a recently recognized entity which closely resembles an intraductal papillary mucinous tumor (IPMT) of the pancreas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Insubria, Viale Borri 57, 21100 Varese, Italy. gcarraf@tin.it.
authors.forename: Gianpaolo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carrafiello
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bertolotti
authors.forename: Fausto
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sessa
authors.forename: Tamara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cafaro
authors.forename: Gianlorenzo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dionigi
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Genovese
authors.forename: Renzo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dionigi
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fugazzola