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Choledochocele: diagnosis by magnetic resonance imaging
A I De Backer1, K Van den Abbeele, A M De Schepper
1Department of Radiology, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium.
Abdominal Imaging
|August 10, 2000
Abstract:
The value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is demonstrated in a case of a 22-year-old female with a small choledochocele clinically presenting with acute cholecystitis and pancreatitis. Previous abdominal sonography and computed tomography were not diagnostic. MRI and MRCP showed a cystic dilatation of the distal common bile duct, intramurally located in the second portion of the duodenum and protruding into the duodenal lumen. These findings allowed a confident diagnosis of a choledochocele.