Cholangiocarcinoma: Epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis, and diagnosis

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 182-187

  Charbel, Halim ^a,b   Al Kawas, Firas H ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary; Cholangiocarcinoma; Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; Klatskin tumor

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CA-19-9 ANTIGEN; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955864016     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-011-0178-8     Document Type: Article

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