Klatskin-type cholangiocarcinoma is a rare tumor, bearing a very poor prognosis: at diagnosis, most patients can only undergo palliation. Evaluation of outcome, mean survival and quality of life was performed in patients with unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma treated with multimodality approach in comparison with surgical palliation, biliary stenting or brachytherapy alone. Twenty-six patie...

IntroduCtIon Most hepatic biliary lesions are benign and incidentally discovered during procedures unrelated to the liver. Benign bile duct proliferations are gray–white subcapsular nodules that are often multiple, so it is not surprising that their detection results in more liver frozen sections than any other finding. In contrast, a diagnosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is almost alway...

INTRODUCTION Biliary papillomatosis is a condition characterized by multiple papillary tumors of variable distribution and extent within the biliary tract. Papillary carcinoma can develop in these lesions. It is a rare biliary pathological entity and its clinical features and outcome are not well known. CASE PRESENTATION We experienced a case of biliary papillomatosis in a 51-year-old North A...

Portal vein embolization (PVE) is increasingly performed worldwide to reduce the possibility of liver failure after extended hepatectomy, by inducing future liver remnant (FLR) hypertrophy and atrophy of the liver planned for resection. The procedure is known to be very safe and to have few procedure-related complications.In this study, we described 2 elderly patients with Bismuth-Corlette type...