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Cholangiocarcinoma is the second most common primary malignant hepatobiliary neoplasm, accounting for approximately 15% of liver cancers. Diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma is challenging and the prognosis is uniformly poor, with recurrence rates of 60%-90% after surgical resection. A wide spectrum of neoplastic and nonneoplastic conditions of the biliary tract may masquerade as cholangiocarcinoma, adding to the complexity of management in patients suspected to have cholangiocarcinoma. Mimics of cholangiocarcinoma constitute a heterogeneous group of entities that includes primary sclerosing cholangitis, recurrent pyogenic cholangitis, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome cholangiopathy, autoimmune pancreatitis, inflammatory pseudotumor, Mirizzi syndrome, xanthogranulomatous cholangitis, sarcoidosis, chemotherapy-induced sclerosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, metastases, melanoma, lymphoma, leukemia, and carcinoid tumors. These entities demonstrate characteristic histomorphology and variable clinicobiologic behaviors. The imaging findings of these disparate entities are protean and may be indistinguishable from those of cholangiocarcinoma. In most cases, a definitive diagnosis can be established only with histopathologic examination of a biopsy specimen.
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PMID:Mimics of cholangiocarcinoma: spectrum of disease. 1863 32

Major surgical resection is often the only curative treatment for cholangiocarcinoma. When imaging techniques fail to establish the accurate diagnosis, biopsy of the lesion is unavoidable. However, biopsy is not necessarily required for topography of the cholangiocarcinoma (intrahepatic or extrahepatic). 1) In extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ECC), clinical features and radiological imaging relate to biliary obstruction. Provided that between 8% and 43% of bile duct strictures are not ECC, the lesions mimicking ECC that should be ruled out are gallbladder cancer, Mirizzi syndrome, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), autoimmune pancreatitis and portal biliopathy. Systematic biopsy is usually difficult and has poor sensitivity, but a good knowledge of these mimicking ECC diseases, along with precise analysis of clinical and imaging semiology, may lead to a correct diagnosis without the need for biopsy. 2) Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) developing in normal liver appears as a hypovascular tumour with fibrotic component and capsular retraction that can be confused with fibrous metastases such as breast and colorectal cancers. The lack of the primary site, a relatively large tumour size and ancillary findings such as bile duct dilatation may provide a clue to the diagnosis. If not, we advocate local resection with lymph node dissection, since ICC is the most likely diagnosis and surgery is the only curative treatment. In the event of adenocarcinoma from unknown primary, surgery is an effective treatment even if prognosis is poor.
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PMID:Is preoperative histological diagnosis necessary before referral to major surgery for cholangiocarcinoma? 1877 64

Few studies have addressed the expression profiles associated with progression of pancreatic cancer to advanced disease. Towards this end, we performed expression profiling of a series of normal pancreas, pancreatitis and cancer tissues representing early stage resected pancreatic cancers (stages pT2/T3), late stage unresectable cancers (stage pT4) and matched metastases to a variety of organ sites. Microarray data was analyzed using linear modeling of microarray data (LIMMA), and differentially expressed genes were subjected to Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA). While robust differences were found in primary cancers as compared to normal pancreatic tissues, no differences were found between primary cancers and metastases, whether using matched or unmatched samples. When resected pancreatic cancers were specifically compared to advanced pancreatic cancers, significant differences in gene expression were found associated with growth at the primary site. These differentially expressed genes were most prominent in gene classes that related to MAPK and Wnt pathway, metabolism, immune regulation, cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions within the infiltrating carcinoma. One candidate upregulated gene (MXI1) was validated as having increased expression in advanced stage (T4) carcinomas by real-time PCR (p<0.05) and immunolabeling (p<0.003). We conclude that in addition to the robust changes in expression that accompany pancreatic carcinogenesis additional specific changes occur in association with growth at the primary site. By contrast, metastatic spread is not accompanied by reproducible changes in gene expression. These findings add to our understanding of pancreatic cancer and offer new topics for investigation into the aggressive nature of this deadly tumor type.
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PMID:Gene expression profiles associated with advanced pancreatic cancer. 1878 21

Little is known about the long-term outcome of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), and whether AIP possesses malignant potential. We report herein a 68-year-old Japanese AIP patient who rapidly developed systemic malignant dissemination of unknown origin, resulting in death. The patient was diagnosed histopathologically as having AIP in 1999. After a 6-year history of 5 mg/day of prednisolone therapy, a sudden onset of abdominal pain and convulsive seizure occurred, and the patient died on the tenth hospital day owing to diffuse peritoneal disseminations and metastases in the bilateral lungs and brain. Autopsy disclosed that the primary site was renal cell carcinoma, detectable only by autopsy, originating in the left kidney. On microscopy, metastatic cells obtained from the brain, lung, and peritoneum were composed of pleomorphic malignant cells identical to those from the renal cell carcinoma. Unexpectedly, abundant IgG4-positive plasma cell infiltration, suggesting high activity of AIP in pancreatic parenchyma and around dilated bile ducts, was still observed.
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PMID:An autopsy case of autoimmune pancreatitis after a 6-year history of steroid therapy accompanied by malignant dissemination of unknown origin. 1879 9

Morbid obesity is a recognized risk factor for gastrointestinal cancer. Little is known about pancreatic cancer developing after gastric bypass surgery or about surgery for this type of tumor following bariatric surgery. This report describes a case of pancreatic head cancer identified 3 months after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity. During routine follow-up, mild abdominal pain and elevated pancreatic enzymes prompted computed tomography, which revealed mild edematous pancreatitis. Hyperbilirubinemia developed, and magnetic resonance imaging showed a pancreatic head tumor. CA19-9 was elevated. After a pylorus-preserving pancreatic head resection, the postoperative course was uneventful. The patient received adjuvant chemotherapy. Unfortunately, at the time of writing (9 months postoperatively), a local recurrence and hepatic metastases were diagnosed. Patients treated with bariatric surgery who develop new symptoms or report constant mild symptoms should be evaluated using endoscopy and radiomorphological imaging. Interdisciplinary obesity treatment can then offer significant benefits for the patient, particularly in the case of pancreatic cancer, which is still difficult to diagnose. In addition, there is a need for epidemiological studies of patients who undergo bariatric surgery and subsequently develop cancer.
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PMID:Morbid obesity and subsequent pancreatic cancer: pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. 1881 48

Computed tomography (CT) and in particular multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT), also known as multislice CT (MSCT), is ideally suited for detecting pancreatic tumors because of the high spatial resolution.The method of choice is hydro-CT which involves distension of the stomach and duodenum by administration of 1-1.5 l water as a negative contrast medium under medically induced hypotension by administration of buscopan. The patient is laid on the right side at an angle of 30-45 degrees in order to obtain an artefact-free image of the close anatomical relationship around the pancreas head. In addition, curved MPRs or in rare cases 3D reconstructions could be very helpful in identifying the critical anatomic tumor site in the neighbourhood of the visceral vessel system. After the correct diagnosis of an adenocarcinoma has been made only 20% of all patients are shown to have a surgically resectable disease, but the overall survival rate is significantly higher after resection in combination with a multimodal tumor therapy strategy. The reason is that the correct diagnosis of the resectability of the tumor is one of the main criteria for overall survival of these patients. Currently practically all pancreatic tumors can be detected using MDCT and the detection rate varies between 70% and 100% (most recent literature references give a sensitivity of 89% and specificity up to 99%). In some rare cases the differentiation between focal necrotizing pancreatitis and pancreatic carcinoma can be difficult even with sophisticated protocols. Resectability can be correctly diagnosed with MDCT with a sensitivity of 94% and a specificity of 89%. MDCT is an ideal tool for the detection of neuroendocrine tumors, metastases and for the differentiation of cystic pancreatic lesions such as pseudocysts, microcystic adenomas or intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN). Particularly, the differentiation of the latter into benign, borderline or malignant transformation is not always possible, but indirect signs, such as small nodules adjacent to the ductal wall, the diameter of the pancreatic duct, or a direct communication between cystic lesions and duct can be detected because of the high spatial resolution and is comparable to the findings in MRI. Moreover MD-CT is an ideal procedure for the differentiation of local tumor stages in patients under neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.
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PMID:[Computed tomography of pancreatic tumors]. 1913 77

This retrospective study analyzes, whether patients suffering from extensive hepatic metastatic disease treated with SIRT can become suitable candidates for RFA.Within 38 months 46 patients (26 female, 20 male; age 32-75 years) bearing an extensive hepatic metastatic disease were treated with SIRT. Patients suffered from metastases of breast cancer (16/46), colorectal cancer (CRC) (21/46), neuroendocrine (3/46), and other primary carcinomas (6/46). The indication for SIRT was otherwise untreatable metastases confined to the liver. Forty-three patients received single-session whole-liver radioembolization treatment using Yttrium90 resin microspheres with a mean activity of 2.13GBq. In 1 patient SIRT was confined to the left and in 2 patients to the right liver lobe. In 3 patients major complications (2/3 gastric ulceration and 1/3 oedematous pancreatitis) and in 24 patients minor complications occurred (acute abdominal/epigastric pain and/or nausea). Follow-up CT and/or MRI were obtained in 44 of 46 patients. In 5 of 44 patients tumor load decreased substantially (3/5 breast cancer, 1/5 CRC and 1/5 pancreatic cancer) making RFA feasible. The patients were referred for RFA after the first 3-month follow-up. RFA of the liver was successful in all cases in terms of complete ablation. In selected patients radioembolization is able to downstage liver metastases to an extent making a subsequent RFA suitable and therefore allows increasing the number of patients with a "complete response" after a minimally invasive therapy.
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PMID:Radiofrequency ablation after selective internal radiation therapy with Yttrium90 microspheres in metastatic liver disease-Is it feasible? 1926 63

Lung cancer is one of the most frequent neoplasms. The symptoms are due to the cancer itself, its extension, and associated paraneoplastic syndromes. Although biliopancreatic metastases are common, biliopancreatic involvement as the initial symptom of lung cancer--whether as pancreatitis or obstructive jaundice--is rare. We describe our clinical experience, reporting two patients with acute pancreatitis and one patient with obstructive jaundice as the clinical presentation of advanced lung cancer. We also provide a brief review that highlights the absence of guidelines in this situation.
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PMID:[Acute pancreatitis and obstructive jaundice secondary to metastases from lung cancer]. 1980 Jan 49

Solid lesions of the body and tail of the pancreas challenge all the diagnostic and technical skills of the modern gastrointestinal surgeon. The information available from modern computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) imaging provide diagnostic and anatomic data that give the surgeon precise information with which to plan an operation and to discuss with the patient during the preoperative visit. A preoperative evaluation includes a thorough history and a pancreas protocol CT scan, supplemented by MR imaging and EUS when needed, to differentiate between the various potential diagnoses. These same modalities can be essential in proper staging in the case of malignant lesions, thus aiding in management decisions. Most lesions ultimately require operative resection, barring metastatic disease, with the notable exception of autoimmune pancreatitis.
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PMID:Solid tumors of the body and tail of the pancreas. 2036 87

In 61 patients pancreaticoduodenal resection (PDR) was performed: for pancreatic gland head cancer-in 29, periampullar zone cancer--in 20, chronic pseudotumoral pancreatitis--in 12. In 10 patients, suffering pancreatic gland and periampullar zone cancer, complicated by solitary hepatic metastases, PDR was added by cryodestruction of metastases. Cryoaffection on pancreatic gland stump during PDR performance have resulted in lowering of early postoperative complications frequency (pancreatic fistula, parapancreatic septic inflammation and an acute pancreatitis) and of chronic pancreatitis acute phase evolvement risk in the late postoperative period. Cryodestruction of hepatic metastases have promoted the patients survival median increase.
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PMID:[Comparative efficacy of pancreatoduodenal resection using intraoperative cryo-techniques]. 2045 43


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