Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity?

Two patients with stricture of the extrahepatic biliary tree are described. Both patients presented with a clinical picture of obstructive jaundice one to two years following radiotherapy for a malignant condition. As no recurrent tumour was detected in either of the patients the strictures were con...

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Autores principales: Halevy, A., Adam, A., Stamp, G., Benjamin, I. S., Blumgart, L. H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1992
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1390364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1992/52618
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author Halevy, A.
Adam, A.
Stamp, G.
Benjamin, I. S.
Blumgart, L. H.
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description Two patients with stricture of the extrahepatic biliary tree are described. Both patients presented with a clinical picture of obstructive jaundice one to two years following radiotherapy for a malignant condition. As no recurrent tumour was detected in either of the patients the strictures were considered to be the result of radiation therapy. Bilio-enteric decompression was performed in both patients who are well at follow up one and ten years after the procedure.
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spelling pubmed-24429632008-07-08 Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity? Halevy, A. Adam, A. Stamp, G. Benjamin, I. S. Blumgart, L. H. HPB Surg Research Article Two patients with stricture of the extrahepatic biliary tree are described. Both patients presented with a clinical picture of obstructive jaundice one to two years following radiotherapy for a malignant condition. As no recurrent tumour was detected in either of the patients the strictures were considered to be the result of radiation therapy. Bilio-enteric decompression was performed in both patients who are well at follow up one and ten years after the procedure. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1992 /pmc/articles/PMC2442963/ /pubmed/1390364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1992/52618 Text en Copyright © 1992 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Halevy, A.
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Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity?
title Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity?
title_full Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity?
title_fullStr Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity?
title_full_unstemmed Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity?
title_short Radiation Stricture of the Biliary Ducts: An Emerging New Entity?
title_sort radiation stricture of the biliary ducts: an emerging new entity?
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1390364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1992/52618
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