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Regan isoenzyme, variant alkaline phosphatase, and alpha-fetoprotein were found in the serum of a patient with gastric cancer. The histology of the tumor was tubular adenocarcinoma. There were metastases in the retroperitoneal lymph nodes, but not in the liver. The liver was normal microscopically, with no evidence of bile duct obstruction. alpha-Fetoprotein in the tumor tissue was detected by immunoprecipitation reaction in agar. Regan isoenzyme and variant alkaline phosphatase were also detected in the tumor tissue and total alkaline phosphatase activity of the tissue was very high. These findings suggested their tumor origin.
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PMID:Occurrence of alpha-fetoprotein, Regan isoenzyme, and variant alkaline phosphatase in the serum of a patient with gastric cancer. 5 76

Explorative laparoscopy is an endoscopic examination of the abdominal cavity which, with the modern endoscopy tables, permits a considerably improved survey than formerly. Within one year, 105 patients were examined and a suspected tumor was confirmed 20 times in 57 patients. Metastases were sought 23 times in patients known to have a primary tumor, and demonstrated 11 times. The differential diagnosis of cholestasis was made 18 times, 6 times a negative cholecystogram required further clarification. Two of these showed an inoperable, infiltrating, growing carcinoma of the gall bladder. For the purpose of classification of lymphogranulomata, laparoscopy shows the advantage over laparotomy of careful magnifying observation of the surface of the liver which can be repeated as often as desired.
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PMID:[Explorative laparoscopy or laparotomy? (author's transl)]. 13 93

Explorative laparoscopy is an endoscopic examination of the abdominal cavity which, with the modern endoscopy tables, permits a considerably improved survey than formerly. Within one year, 105 patients were examined and a suspected tumor was confirmed 20 times in 57 patients. Metastasis were sought 23 times in patients known to have a primary tumor, and demonstrated 11 times. The differential diagnosis of cholestasis was made 18 times, 6 times a negative cholecystogram required further clarification. Two of these showed an inoperable, infiltrating, growing carcinoma of the gall bladder. For the purpose of classification of lymphogranulomata, laparoscopy shows the advantage over laparotomy of careful magnifying observation of the surface of the liver which can be repeated as often as desired.
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PMID:[Explorative Laparoscopy or Laparotomy (author's transl)]. 13 94

We report the case of a 13-year-old boy who was known to have Fanconi's anemia for five years. For treatment of this condition he was given androgens and corticosteroids. Two months before his death, severe varicella developed complicated by pneumonia, jaundice, and prolonged fever; all of which resolved during a five-week hospitalization. Three weeks later he died of Clostridium septicum sepsis caused by necrotizing enterocolitis. At autopsy he was found to have multiple hepatocellular neoplasms. A striking feature of the neoplasms was cholestasis. The liver also showed peliosis hepatis. The association of the use of certain androgenic steroids with hepatic neoplasms histologically resembling hepatocarcinomas, but characterized by lack of metastases and apparent reversibility, suggests the desirability of a new nomenclature for these hepatocellular lesions.
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PMID:Multiple hepatic tumors and peliosis hepatis in Fanconi's anemia treated with androgens. 19 56

CT can clearly demonstrate dilation of intra- and extra-hepatic bile ducts due to mechanical obstruction. Note is made that the intrahepatic bile must not necessarily participate in dilation in obstructive jaundice. The cause in 27 cases observed in our institutions was as follows: 16 pancreatic tumors; 1 stone; 2 extrahepatic bile duct obstructions; 4 liver lesions (tumor and cirrhosis) and 4 with cause unknown. Furthermore, CT is helpful in the evaluation of hepatogenic non-obstructive jaundice such as due to primary liver cell carcinoma (hepatoma), metastases to the liver and advanced cirrhosis of the liver. The value of CT in the evaluation of different types of cholestasis is demonstrated by several exemplary cases; and the problems of differential diagnosis are pointed out.
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PMID:[Computerized tomography in the evaluation (author's transl)]. 22 56

The quantitative distribution of the multimolecular forms of serum gamma-glutamyl-transferase is studied in 286 sera by acrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubation, coloration in situ, photography, slide reading and integration. In 43 normal sera, the fast fraction represents 66% of the total activity; the ratio of the mean fast fraction to the medium and slow fraction was 2. During pregnancy (53 cases), in cord blood (54 cases), in hepatic cytolysis or cholestasis (55 cases), and in secondary liver carcinoma (21 cases), this ratio is considerably lower, demonstrating the predominance of medium and slow fractions. A similar decrease in the ratio, with predominance of the medium and slow fractions was seen in 22 cases of advanced cancer without metastases in the liver.
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PMID:[Quantitative study of multimolecular forms of serum gamma glutamyl transferase by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis]. 24 Oct 44

Twenty-four patients with clinical evidence of obstructive jaundice were examined by percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and needle biopsy (NB) of liver. The presence of extrahepatic bile duct obstruction was confirmed by surgery in 21 cases. PTC and the combination of both methods were superior to NB alone in the differential diagnosis between extra- and intrahepatic biliary obstruction. Sampling bias added to the difficulties of NB in distinguishing beween these two types of obstruction. The combination of both precedures proved most useful in three cases with intrahepatic obstruction, in which the patients were spared unnecessary surgery. In five cases the NB provided additional information about the nature of the tumor metastases and gave suport to the clinicians in their therapeutic approach.
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PMID:Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and needle biopsy in the differential diagnosis of obstruction of bile flow. 61 15

116 patients with clinically suspected obstructive jaundice were subjected to primary sonographic examination by means of the "real-time" method to differentiate between intrahepatic (internal) and extrahepatic (surgical) cholestasis. Diagnosis was finally confirmed by observing the clinical course, by further examinations, and in 63 cases by surgery or PM. Sonographic examination revealed the direct cause of the extrahepatic obstruction in 82 of 87 patients (94.3%) with extrahepatic cholestasis; in case of dilatation of the bile duct, the approximate site of the obstruction could be determined. In about 75% of the cases, the cause of biliary obstruction was correctly identified. Intrahepatic tumours or metastases were present in 10 of 27 patients with intrahepatic cholestasis; sonographic identification was effected in all cases and histologically or cytologically confirmed with aspiration material from fine-needle biopsies. The high accuracy and uncomplicated technique avoiding discomfort or harm to the patient, make sonography a useful method in differential diagnosis of cholestasis.
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PMID:[Ultrasound in differential diagnosis of intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholestasis (author's transl)]. 69 86

Hepatomegaly and abnormal liver function can occur in nonmetastatic malignancies. A patient with metastatic prostatic adenocarcinoma that had spared the liver and extrahepatic biliary tree is described. He had puzzling episodes of jaundice for a period of 2 1/2 years. The results of appropriate investigations and an exploratory laparotomy performed dlring the patient's four antemortem hospitalizations were indicative of "recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis," the cause of which remained an enigma even after exploratory laparotomy. At autopsy, no evidence of hepatic metastases or extrahepatic biliary obstruction was found. Alcohol, hepatotoxic drugs, toxins, viral and chronic active hepatitis, hemolysis, and extrahepatic biliary obstruction were eliminated as causes of the jaundice. We believe that the intermittent intrahepatic cholestasis is one of the nonmetastatic manifestations (nonmetastatic hepatopathy of malignancy) of the prostatic adenocarcinoma.
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PMID:Intermittent cholestatic jaundice and nonmetastatic prostatic carcinoma. 92 51

Bile duct adenomas are small nodules that are usually found incidentally on the liver surface at abdominal surgery or autopsy. We recently analyzed two such lesions that, in addition to the typical small caliber ducts, contained periductular nests and clusters of uniform round cells, suggestive of endocrine cell proliferation. Follow-up of these patients did not show endocrine tumors elsewhere. The lesions were studied by immunohistochemistry (avidin-biotin-peroxidase technique) and compared with conventional bile duct adenomas (seven cases). The results showed these cells to decorate with several endocrine markers, namely, neuron-specific enolase, chromogranin, synaptophysin, and Leu-7. Endocrine markers were not seen in the cells of conventional bile duct adenomas. Epithelial markers, that is, cytokeratin (CAM 5.2 antibody) and epithelial membrane antigen, were expressed by the cells composing both conventional bile duct adenomas and those with endocrine-like cells, although with less intensity in the endocrine cell clusters. We suggest that some bile duct adenomas contain endocrine cell proliferations that morphologically may resemble a small carcinoid tumor or the so-called pulmonary tumorlet. Neurosecretory granules have previously been identified in some cholangiocarcinomas and in bile duct proliferation associated with cholestasis. The endocrine clusters in biliary adenomas may constitute a diagnostic pitfall and must be separated from metastases of carcinoids or islet cell tumors.
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PMID:Bile duct adenomas with endocrine component. Immunohistochemical study and comparison with conventional bile duct adenomas. 137 Jan 91


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