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Carcinoma of the extrahepatic bile ducts: A postmortem study of 65 cases and review of the literature
Author(s) -
Sons H. U.,
Borchard F.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930340103
Subject(s) - medicine , extrahepatic bile ducts , carcinoma , bile duct , pathology , bile duct carcinoma , anaplastic carcinoma , gastroenterology , general surgery
From 1950 to 1982, 65 patients with carcinoma of the extrahepatic bile ducts were autopsied in the Institute of Pathology of the University of Düsseldorf. The average age of men was 64.5 years and that of women was 70 years. The ratio of men to women was 1 to 1.71. The greatest number of tumors was found in the common bile duct (40.1 %), followed by the hepatic ducts (29.2%) and the confluence of the common hepatic duct with the cystic duct (27.7%). Adenocarcinomas of various differentiation were found in 96.7% of the cases and anaplastic carcinoma in 3.3%. Metastases were present in 49 cases (75.4%). Cholelithiasis was found in 51 % of the cases. The results of the present postmortem study are compared with the literature.