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Radiation stricture of the biliary ducts: an emerging new entity?
1Department of Radiology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
Abstract:
Two patients with stricture of the extrahepatic biliary tree are described. Both patients presented with a clinical picture of obstructive jaundice one to two years following radiotherapy for a malignant condition. As no recurrent tumour was detected in either of the patients the strictures were considered to be the result of radiation therapy. Bilio-enteric decompression was performed in both patients who are well at follow up one and ten years after the procedure.