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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
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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author Delis, Spiros G
Karakaxas, Dimitrios
Bakoyiannis, Andreas
Paraskeva, Konstantina
Dervenis, Christos
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Karakaxas, Dimitrios
Bakoyiannis, Andreas
Paraskeva, Konstantina
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-27402752009-10-14 Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report Delis, Spiros G Karakaxas, Dimitrios Bakoyiannis, Andreas Paraskeva, Konstantina Dervenis, Christos Cases J 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 large hepatocellular carcinoma, as well as the course of the diagnostic procedures and the therapeutics interventions which took place. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2740275/ /pubmed/19830038 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7992 Text en © 2009 Delis et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Delis, Spiros G
Karakaxas, Dimitrios
Bakoyiannis, Andreas
Paraskeva, Konstantina
Dervenis, Christos
Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report
title Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report
title_full Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report
title_fullStr Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report
title_short Pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report
title_sort pleurobiliary fistula, a rare complication of hepatocellular carcinoma after locoregional chemotherapy: a case report
topic Case report
url 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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