Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice

Mucobilia is defined as the abnormal secretion of copious amounts of mucus from within the bile ducts, manifesting as obstructive jaundice or cholangitis. A spectrum of mucin-producing hepatobiliary and pancreatic neoplasms have been associated with mucobilia. We report the case of a 63-year-old mal...

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Autores principales: Satiya, Jinendra, Erim, Tolga, Restrepo, Alexander, Simpfendorfer, Conrad, Parlade, Albert J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6592460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31263652
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4565
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author Satiya, Jinendra
Erim, Tolga
Restrepo, Alexander
Simpfendorfer, Conrad
Parlade, Albert J
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description Mucobilia is defined as the abnormal secretion of copious amounts of mucus from within the bile ducts, manifesting as obstructive jaundice or cholangitis. A spectrum of mucin-producing hepatobiliary and pancreatic neoplasms have been associated with mucobilia. We report the case of a 63-year-old male with an intestinal type of intraductal papillary neoplasm of the intrahepatic bile duct.
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spelling pubmed-65924602019-07-01 Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice Satiya, Jinendra Erim, Tolga Restrepo, Alexander Simpfendorfer, Conrad Parlade, Albert J Cureus Gastroenterology Mucobilia is defined as the abnormal secretion of copious amounts of mucus from within the bile ducts, manifesting as obstructive jaundice or cholangitis. A spectrum of mucin-producing hepatobiliary and pancreatic neoplasms have been associated with mucobilia. We report the case of a 63-year-old male with an intestinal type of intraductal papillary neoplasm of the intrahepatic bile duct. Cureus 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6592460/ /pubmed/31263652 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4565 Text en Copyright © 2019, Satiya et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Gastroenterology
Satiya, Jinendra
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Simpfendorfer, Conrad
Parlade, Albert J
Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice
title Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice
title_full Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice
title_fullStr Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice
title_full_unstemmed Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice
title_short Mucobilia: An Unusual Cause of Persistent Jaundice
title_sort mucobilia: an unusual cause of persistent jaundice
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6592460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31263652
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4565
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