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mucin-producing bile duct tumors
Sunday 21 January 2007
Tumors with clinically recognizable mucin production arising from bile duct have been reported as:
mucus producing bile duct carcinoma
mucin-producing cholangiocarcinoma
mucin-producing cholangiocellular carcinoma
mucin-producing biliary papillomatosis
mucin ball-producing extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma
intraductal mucosal-spreading mucin-producing peripheral cholangiocarcinoma
mucin-hypersecreting intrahepatic biliary neoplasms
mucin-hypersecreting bile duct tumor
mucin-hypersecreting papillary cholangiocarcinoma
References
Shibahara H, Tamada S, Goto M, Oda K, Nagino M, Nagasaka T, Batra SK, Hollingsworth MA, Imai K, Nimura Y, Yonezawa S. Pathologic features of mucin-producing bile duct tumors: two histopathologic categories as counterparts of pancreatic intraductal papillary-mucinous neoplasms. Am J Surg Pathol. 2004 Mar;28(3):327-38. PMID: 15104295