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Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with prolonged survival: a case report

BACKGROUND: Cholangiocarcinoma has poor prognosis and short term-survival. Here, we report the case of a patient with unusually prolonged survival. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient was a 56-year-old Arab man with a 6-month history of obstructive jaundice. A computed tomography scan of his abdomen reve...

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Autores principales: Al-Zahir, Mohammed Z., AlAmeel, Turki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29275776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1519-5
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description BACKGROUND: Cholangiocarcinoma has poor prognosis and short term-survival. Here, we report the case of a patient with unusually prolonged survival. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient was a 56-year-old Arab man with a 6-month history of obstructive jaundice. A computed tomography scan of his abdomen revealed a mass at the confluence of the hepatic ducts with suspected malignant strictures on endoscopy. A positive tissue diagnosis was achieved more than 18 months after commencement of his symptoms. He remained functional throughout this period despite recurrent episodes of cholangitis. CONCLUSIONS: Cholangiocarcinoma is a presumably fatal disease, especially because patients tend to present late with unresectable disease. Many patient-related and disease-related factors may alter survival.
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spelling pubmed-57424852018-01-03 Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with prolonged survival: a case report Al-Zahir, Mohammed Z. AlAmeel, Turki J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Cholangiocarcinoma has poor prognosis and short term-survival. Here, we report the case of a patient with unusually prolonged survival. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient was a 56-year-old Arab man with a 6-month history of obstructive jaundice. A computed tomography scan of his abdomen revealed a mass at the confluence of the hepatic ducts with suspected malignant strictures on endoscopy. A positive tissue diagnosis was achieved more than 18 months after commencement of his symptoms. He remained functional throughout this period despite recurrent episodes of cholangitis. CONCLUSIONS: Cholangiocarcinoma is a presumably fatal disease, especially because patients tend to present late with unresectable disease. Many patient-related and disease-related factors may alter survival. BioMed Central 2017-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5742485/ /pubmed/29275776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1519-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with prolonged survival: a case report
title_sort extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with prolonged survival: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29275776
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