Polypoid Epithelial Tumors of the Bile Ducts
- 11 January 1962
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 266 (2) , 57-61
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196201112660201
Abstract
LITTLE attention has been paid to polypoid epithelial tumors of the bile ducts in spite of their favorable prognosis, often disabling symptoms, difficulty of clinical recognition and relation to invasive carcinoma.1 Reports in the literature2 , 3 hinder their accurate appraisal because they have been included with other benign tumors of the bile duct and subdivided without clinical implication into papillomas, polyps and adenomas. Furthermore, some confusion exists about the differentiation of true papillomas in the region of the ampulla from hyperplasia of the normal papillary folds of the lining membranes.4 We consider the true polypoid tumors as a single group, and . . .Keywords
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- RETENTION CYST OF THE LIVER DUE TO A BILE DUCT POLYP*Annals of Surgery, 1954