Benign biliary inflammatory pseudotumor mimicking a Klatskin tumor

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 54, Issue 77, 2007, Pages 1348-1352

  Gohy, Sophie ^a   Hubert, Catherine ^a   Deprez, Pierre ^a   Van Beers, Bernard E ^a   Annet, Laurence ^a   Lhommel, Renaud ^a   Sempoux, Christine ^a   Gigot, Jean François ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biliary tumor; Imaging; Mimicking; Pseudotumor

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILIARY PSEUDOTUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KLATSKIN TUMOR; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER RESECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PORTAL VEIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; KLATSKIN'S TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34547619189     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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