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Experience of the pancreas duodenectomy for so-called carcinosarcoma of the common bile duct:a case report and review of literature

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A 79-year-old man presented with malaise and jaundice at a local hospital. His blood tests showed severe inflammation, liver failure, and high expression of several tumour markers. Radiological findings revealed dilated common and intrahepatic bile ducts and a lower bile duct constricted by a soft tissue mass. Histological findings by endoscopy showed a suspected adenocarcinoma, which was determined as class IV by cytology. The patient was referred to our hospital for surgical treatment. He underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy and the final diagnosis was so-called carcinosarcoma of the bile duct. He had liver metastasis and died at 26 postoperative months.

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  1. Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8666, Japan

    Suguru Sasamoto, Takeshi Aoki, Yoshihiko Tashiro, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Tomotake Koizumi, Tomokazu Kusano, Yusuke Wada, Hideki Shibata, Kodai Tomioka, Takeshi Yamashita, Hiromi Date, Tomotake Ariyoshi, Satoru Goto, Kimiyasu Yamazaki, Akira Fujimori, Makoto Watanabe, Yuta Enami, Koji Otsuka & Masahiko Murakami

  2. Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8666, Japan

    Tomoko Norose, Nobuyuki Ohike, Toshiko Yamochi & Masafumi Takimoto

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Sasamoto, S., Aoki, T., Tashiro, Y. et al. Experience of the pancreas duodenectomy for so-called carcinosarcoma of the common bile duct:a case report and review of literature. Int Canc Conf J 10, 134–138 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13691-020-00462-y

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