Open AccessKlatskin-mimicking neuroendocrine tumor
Author(s) -
María Josefa Sánchez Fernández,
José Francisco Sánchez Melgarejo,
Alejandro Pérez Fernández
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas/revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2019.6382/2019
Subject(s) - medicine , klatskin tumor , radiology , neuroendocrine tumors , general surgery , pathology , surgery , resection
With regard to the article published in your journal by Konstantinos Tsalis et al on Klatskin-mimicking lesions, we recently diagnosed a neuroendocrine tumor (NET) in the proximal biliary tract of a 78-year-old female with obstructive jaundice manifestations. A chest-abdomen-pelvis CT scan identified infiltrating ductal cholangiocarcinoma (Klatskin tumor, type IV in the Bismuth-Corlette classification with cT2N1 staging) and a liver mass in segment IV.