263 Tuberculosis of the Bile Duct: A Rare Cause of Obstructive Jaundice

Neurofibroma of the bile duct: a rare cause of obstructive jaundice

Neurofibromas of the common bile duct are extremely rare. The lack of specific clinical or radiological features makes preoperative diagnosis in the absence of histology difficult. We report the case of a female patient who presented with obstructive jaundice and evidence of a common bile duct stricture on imaging. She underwent an exploratory laparotomy, and intraoperative frozen section confi...

[Pancreatic tuberculosis. A rare cause of obstructive jaundice].

Pancreatobiliary and peripancreatobiliary tuberculosis: a rare cause of obstructive jaundice

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common and well-described infectious diseases, with a worldwide distribution and a vast spectrum of clinical manifestations. Tuberculosis involvement of the bile duct, pancreatic, periportal and/or peripancreatic lymph nodes is, however, surprising rare [1]. Patients with TB of the bile duct, pancreatic, periportal and/or peripancreatic lymph nodes usually p...

A rare cause of obstructive jaundice.

uestion: An 80-year-old woman was admitted to the ospital because of jaundice, upper abdominal pain, nauea, and vomiting. The patient was on phenprocoumon or chronic atrial fibrillation. Physical examination reealed right upper quadrant tenderness and jaundice. Laboratory studies revealed abnormal coagulation tests ith a prolonged prothrombin time (International Normalzed Ratio 6.0) and a prolo...

A Rare Cause of Obstructive Jaundice