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[Cholangiocarcinoma developing in von Meyenburg complexes in haemochromatosis]
Benjamin Wisniewski1, Gilles Tordjman, Jeanne Tran Van Nhieu
1Service d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France.
Gastroenterologie Clinique Et Biologique
|November 16, 2002
Abstract:
A 63-year-old man with genetic haemochromatosis underwent resection of a cholangiocarcinoma that developed in von Meyenburg complexes; the liver was not cirrhotic. Patients with an association of genetic haemochromatosis and von Meyenburg complexes might have a predisposition to cholangiocarcinoma, even before cirrhosis occurs. Patients with this association should undergo regular and early hepatic surveillance of hemochromatosis.