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Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report

A rare complication of the compilation of high intrahepatic biliary pressure and the formation of a subdiaphragmatic abscess is that of pleurobiliary fistula. We present a case of 67-year-old male who presented with pleurobiliary fistula following transarterial chemoembolization in a patient with a...

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Autores principales: Delis, Spiros G, Karakaxas, Dimitrios, Bakoyiannis, Andreas, Paraskeva, Konstantina, Dervenis, Christos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830038
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7992
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Sumario:A rare complication of the compilation of high intrahepatic biliary pressure and the formation of a subdiaphragmatic abscess is that of pleurobiliary fistula. We present a case of 67-year-old male who presented with pleurobiliary fistula following transarterial chemoembolization in a patient with a large hepatocellular carcinoma, as well as the course of the diagnostic procedures and the therapeutics interventions which took place.