Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia

Cholangiocarcinoma is extremely rare in childhood and has been reported in association with other underlying diseases. The survival and prognosis are dismal especially in patients with unresectable or advanced stage cholangiocarcinoma. Overall survival in patients with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma...

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Autores principales: Monsereenusorn, Chalinee, Satayasoontorn, Kantang, Rujkijyanont, Piya, Traivaree, Chanchai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5937564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29850347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6828037
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author Monsereenusorn, Chalinee
Satayasoontorn, Kantang
Rujkijyanont, Piya
Traivaree, Chanchai
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description Cholangiocarcinoma is extremely rare in childhood and has been reported in association with other underlying diseases. The survival and prognosis are dismal especially in patients with unresectable or advanced stage cholangiocarcinoma. Overall survival in patients with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma could be increased by using combination chemotherapy with cisplatin and gemcitabine. A case of childhood cholangiocarcinoma was hereby reported.
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spelling pubmed-59375642018-05-30 Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia Monsereenusorn, Chalinee Satayasoontorn, Kantang Rujkijyanont, Piya Traivaree, Chanchai Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Cholangiocarcinoma is extremely rare in childhood and has been reported in association with other underlying diseases. The survival and prognosis are dismal especially in patients with unresectable or advanced stage cholangiocarcinoma. Overall survival in patients with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma could be increased by using combination chemotherapy with cisplatin and gemcitabine. A case of childhood cholangiocarcinoma was hereby reported. Hindawi 2018-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5937564/ /pubmed/29850347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6828037 Text en Copyright © 2018 Chalinee Monsereenusorn et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Monsereenusorn, Chalinee
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Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia
title Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia
title_full Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia
title_fullStr Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia
title_full_unstemmed Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia
title_short Cholangiocarcinoma in a Child with Progressive Abdominal Distension and Secondary Hypercalcemia
title_sort cholangiocarcinoma in a child with progressive abdominal distension and secondary hypercalcemia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5937564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29850347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6828037
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