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Cancer Imaging. 2004 Apr 06;4(2):104-15. doi: 10.1102/1470-7330.2004.0018.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of cholangiocarcinoma.

Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society

Katrina A Vanderveen, Hero K Hussain

Affiliations

  1. Department of Radiology/MRI B2B311, University of Michigan Hospitals-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0030, USA.

PMID: 18250017 PMCID: PMC1434592 DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2004.0018

Abstract

Preoperative imaging with MRI/MRA/MRCP is an accurate non-invasive method for staging cholangiocarcinoma,and determining resectability. It provides information regarding tumor size, extent of bile duct involvement, vascular patency, extrahepatic extension, nodal or distant metastases, and the presence of lobar atrophy. MRCP is better for demonstrating bile ducts distal to the stricture, although with ERCP, therapeutic intervention such as stent placement and biopsy can be performed.

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