Carcinoid Klatskin tumour: A Rare Cause of Obstructive Jaundice

Carcinoid Klatskin tumour: A rare cause of obstructive jaundice.

Carcinoid tumours of the extrahepatic biliary ducts represent an extremely rare cause of bile duct obstruction. We report a case of obstructive jaundice secondary to carcinoid tumour arising at the hilar confluence. Resection of the primary tumour was done and the patient is doing well on follow-up. This case demonstrated that surgery offers the only potential cure for biliary carcinoid and agg...

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

[A rare cause of obstructive jaundice: fascioliasis].

A 56 year old woman was admitted to the clinic with severe colicky right upper abdominal pain. There was a three-week history of jaundice. Pathological biochemical laboratory results of her serum were as follows: direct bilirubin 4.53 mg/dl, total bilirubin 3.08 mg/dl, AST 45 U/L, ALT 72 U/L. Surgical treatment, cholecystectomy + choledochtomy + T-tube drainage, was performed. Exploration of th...

Adenomyoma of ampulla: a rare cause of obstructive jaundice

Adenomyoma is a rare benign lesion occurring commonly in the fundus of the gallbladder in the biliary tract. Ampullary adenomyoma is rarer still, presenting as obstructive jaundice due to its location at the ampulla and may mimic malignancy on clinical and radiological examination. Endoscopic biopsy may not be always diagnostic if the lesion is deep seated. Histologically these lesions show a c...