Intrahepatic biliary papillomatosis

✍ Scribed by T. A. M. Stoker

• Book ID: 101743885
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 344 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800710531

✦ Synopsis

We do not claim that our method oftreatment is curative and thus the argument concerning histological proof assumes less importance. The majority of patients have shown unequivocal evidence oftumour progression, but it is ofinterest that our 2 longest survivors at 36 and 58 months had positive histological proof of their disease. Furthermore, it would be noted that 6 our of the 15 patients who survived curative resections in the series reported by Blumgart el a/.' subsequently died from the effects of recurrent tumour.

Only a randomized trial will resolve the issue and determine the place, ifany, of radical surgical excision in this difficult condition.