Kamani Fereshteh, Dorudinia Atosa, Goravanchi Farhood, Rahimi Farzaneh
Department of Surgery, Taleghani Hospital, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Arch Iran Med. 2007 Apr;10(2):264-7.
Neurilemmoma rarely develops in the biliary tree. Here, we report a 39-year-old Iranian woman with neurilemmoma in the extrahepatic bile duct presenting with progressively deepening jaundice. On the basis of clinical and radiological features, this tumor was initially suspected as Klatskin tumor. Histologically, the tumor was a typical neurilemmoma. Immunostaining showed that tumor cells were strongly and diffusely positive for S-100 protein, which supported the diagnosis of neurilemmoma. Neurilemmoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of obstructive jaundice.
