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Intraductal Sonography in Patients With Portal Cavernoma Cholangiopathy
Author(s) -
Bhatia Vikram,
Shasthry Saggere Muralikrishna,
Mukund Amar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/ultra.15.05013
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , cholestasis , etiology , pathology
Intraductal sonography generates high‐resolution images of the entire length of the biliary tree and peribiliary tissues, including 3‐dimensional dual‐ and muti‐plane reconstructions to depict complex anatomy. Portal cavernoma cholangiopathy (previously called portal biliopathy) can have multiple etiologies of obstructive cholestasis in the same patient, which can be difficult to define even with advanced imaging techniques.We describe 2 difficult cases of portal cavernoma cholangiopathy in which intraductal sonography helped in clinical management decisions. We think that intraductal sonography should be part of the standard management algorithm for patients with portal cavernoma cholangiopathy and describe the intraductal sonographic correlates of the cholangiographic changes in this condition.