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A 36-year-old woman who had Caroli's disease with refractory cholangitis and complicated intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma was successfully treated with living-donor liver transplantation. Preoperative computed tomography and ultrasonography showed a small nodule in the dilated intrahepatic bile duct. In the resected liver specimen, a small papillary tumor was located in the dilated intrahepatic bile duct of the right lobe. The pathological finding revealed a well differentiated papillary adenocarcinoma without invasion to the parenchyma. The patient is currently doing well 2.5 years after transplantation, with no signs of recurrence of the disease. For Caroli's disease, we believe we can achieve good results with liver transplantation, not only for cholangitis but also for the carcinoma when it is localized in the liver and the patient is carefully followed up.
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Received: December 22, 2000 / Accepted: February 15, 2001
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Takatsuki, M., Uemoto, S., Inomata, Y. et al. Living-donor liver transplantation for Caroli's disease with intrahepatic adenocarcinoma. J Hep Bil Pancr Surg 8, 284–286 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005340170030
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s005340170030