Carrafiello Gianpaolo, Bertolotti Elena, Sessa Fausto, Cafaro Tamara, Dionigi Gianlorenzo, Genovese Eugenio, Dionigi Renzo, Fugazzola Carlo
Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Insubria, Viale Borri 57, 21100 Varese, Italy.
Cases J. 2008 Nov 17;1(1):319. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-1-319.
We report a case of a 67-year-old Caucasian man with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. He underwent radiologic investigations that revealed a solid, focal mass, at the V hepatic segment. Because a definitive diagnosis, based on imaging appearance of the lesion, was impossible in our case, we performed a hystopathological investigation but the biopsies were inconclusive. So, the definitive diagnosis of intraductal papillary mucinous tumor of bile ducts was made on surgical resected material.Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the liver (IPNL) is a recently recognized entity which closely resembles an intraductal papillary mucinous tumor (IPMT) of the pancreas.