Role of intraluminal brachytherapy in palliation of biliary obstruction in cholangiocarcinoma: A brief review

Surgery is the only curative treatment for cholangiocarcinoma. However, most patients present with advanced disease, and hence are unresectable. Thus, the intent of treatment shifts from curative to palliative in the majority of cases. Biliary drainage with intraluminal brachytherapy is an effective...

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Autores principales: Khosla, Divya, Zaheer, Samreen, Gupta, Rahul, Madan, Renu, Goyal, Shikha, Kumar, Narendra, Kapoor, Rakesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8984530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35432743
http://dx.doi.org/10.4253/wjge.v14.i3.106
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Sumario:Surgery is the only curative treatment for cholangiocarcinoma. However, most patients present with advanced disease, and hence are unresectable. Thus, the intent of treatment shifts from curative to palliative in the majority of cases. Biliary drainage with intraluminal brachytherapy is an effective means of relieving the malignant biliary obstruction. In this review, we discuss the role of brachytherapy in the palliation of obstructive symptoms in extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

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