Bile duct cancer

© Borgis - New Medicine 2/2004, s. 26-33

Dimitrous G. Panoussopoulos MD, PhD, S.D. Panoussopoulos MD

Summary
Bile duct cancer is a rare malignancy occuring in a biliary tree. Although the rate of occurence is low it is still worthy to be disscussed. Cholangiocarcinoma is a diagnosis in only 5 to 10% of all periampullary tumors. Diagnosis, staging, classification and and prognostic factors are presented.
Authors describe two kinds of treatment: surgical treatment and palliative therapy pointing out objectives, criteria and clinical outcomes of each. Adjuvant therapy seems to be no effective for cholangiocarcinoma.

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