Clinical Aplication of Cine Cholangiography to Identify the Area of Cholangiocarcinoma Invasion

Harufumi Makino, Toshiyuki Kikuchi, Takehide Asano, Tohru Nagashima, Hodaka Amano, Shin-ichi Okazumi, Masahiro Yoshida, Yasushi Shinohara, Kotaro Iwasaki, Kaichi Isono, Hiroshi Yamamoto¹⁾

Second Department of Surgery, Chiba University School of Medicine
The Division of Gastroenterological Surgery, Chiba Cancer Center Hospital¹⁾

It is difficult to clearly visualize the anatomy of the intrahepatic biliary duct by ordinary stereo cholangiography, because the duct has a three-dimensional structure. Since January, 1990, cine cholangiography,which is obtained by an rotating X-ray tube (vertical and with tilting) around the patient, has been performed on 22 patients with PTCD. Fine three-dimensional rotating cholangiograms were obtained by cine cholangiography in many cases. Cine cholangiography was of value in clarifying their morphology and identifying the area of cholangiocarcinoma invasion in these patients.

Key words
cholangiography, cine cholangiography, stereo cholangiography, rotating cholangiogram, cholangiocarcinoma

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Harufumi Makino The Second Department of Surgery, Chiba University School of Medicine
1-8-1 Inohana, Chuou-ku, Chiba-shi, 260 JAPAN

Accepted
June 8, 1994

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