Abstract
We report herein the case of a 69-year-old woman with extrahepatic bile duct cancer which had developed superficially along the ductal mucosa without penetrating the fibromuscularis. She underwent a pancreatoduodenectomy; however, micrometastases were found histologically in the regional lymph nodes and she died with involved para-aortic lymph nodes and bone metastases 14 months after the operation.
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Uchino, R., Tanaka, M., Sakaguchi, H. et al. Superficial spreading type extrahepatic bile duct cancer with lymphatic micrometastasis: Report of a case. Surg Today 24, 631–633 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01833729
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01833729