T C Chen, Y Nakanuma, Y Zen, M F Chen, Y Y Jan, T S Yeh, C T Chiu, T T Kuo, J Kamiya, K Oda, M Hamaguchi, Y Ohno, L L Hsieh, Y Nimura
Intraductal papillary growth of neoplastic biliary epithelia with a fine fibrovascular stalk (intraductal papillary neoplasia of liver [IPN-L]) resembling intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of pancreas is occasionally associated with hepatolithiasis. In this study, 136 cases of hepatolithiasis in Taiwan, between January 1998 and March 2000, and an additional 21 cases of IPN-L before December 1998, were examined histologically. IPN-L was found in 41 of 136 hepatolithiasis cases (30.1%). Sixty-two IPN-L cases (42 women and 20 men; age range, 59...
October 2001: Hepatology: Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases