A Case of Bile Duct Carcinoma with Hemobilia

Tadashi Bando, Jiro Matsuoka, Isaya Hashimoto, Yasuharu Oonishi, Satoshi Nozawa, Fuminori Yamagishi, Kazuhiro Tsukada and Hiroyuki Takahashi*

Second Department of Surgery and First Department of Pathology*, Toyama University, School of Medicine

We report a rare case of cancer of the bile duct with hemobilia. The patient was a 70-year-old male who had been followed up for upper abdominal pain, abnormal biliary enzyme laboratory data, and bile duct dilatations since October 2003. ERCP on September 2004 for closer examination of a bile duct tumor detected by US revealed hemobilia. In January 2005 we performed extrahepatic bile duct resection of fCurA for a preoperative diagnosis of bile duct tumor. Histopathological examination revealed stage II poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma in the middle portion of the bile duct.

Key words
bile duct carcinoma, hemobilia, bile duct resection

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Tadashi Bando Second Department of Surgery, Toyama University, School of Medicine
2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194 JAPAN

Accepted
July 27, 2005

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