Usefulness of peroral cholangioscopy in preoperative diagnosis of intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct
Sakai, Y.; Tsuyuguchi, T.; Ishihara, T.; Sugiyama, H.; Miyakawa, K.; Yasui, S.; Eto, R.; Fujimoto, T.; Ohtsuka, M.; Miyazaki, M.; Yokosuka, O.
Hepato-Gastroenterology 57(101): 691-693
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0172-6390 PMID: 21033211 Document Number: 639916
Surgical resection is considered the first-line treatment of intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB). Since some patients with IPNB have an unexpectedly superficially-spreading lesion, preoperative cholangioscopic diagnosis is very useful in determining the extent of resection. We report a patient with IPNB in whom preoperative peroral cholangioscopic evaluation was useful.