Primary intrahepatic obliterating cholangitis: a possible variant of `sclerosing cholangitis'
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A case of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
A 31-year-old man was referred to our hospital for the treatment of obstructive jaundice. Dynamic CT scan revealed an ill-defined mass in the right liver, 4.0 3.5 cm in size, involving the right branch of the portal vein (Fig. 1A). Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram showed widespread biliary stricture in the left liver (Fig. 1B), which suggested primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) or IgG4...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.10.11.886