Cholangiocarcinoma or Caroli disease: a case presentation.
Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of cholangiocarcinoma is problematic. Cross sectional imaging and tumor marker CA 19-9 are not absolutely reliable and tissue sampling is difficult. We present a patient with cholangitis and cystic dilation of intra-hepatic bile ducts that primarily diagnosed as Caroli's disease in imaging and needle biopsy but laparotomy and surgical biopsy revealed cholangiocarcinoma.
Department of Gastroenterology, Shaheed Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Mahmud
M
Baghbanian
Department of Gastroenterology, Shaheed Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Hassan
H
Salmanroghani
Department of Psychology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali
A
Baghbanian
Caroli's disease; Cholangiocarcinoma; Cholangitis