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Comparison of the malignant predictors in intrahepatic and extrahepatic intraductal papillary neoplasm of bile duct
Background
Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) is a precancerous lesion of cholangiocarcinoma, for which surgical resection is the most effective treatment. We evaluated the predictors of malignancy in IPNB according to anatomical location and the prognosis without surgery.
Methods
A total of 196 IPNB patients who underwent pathologic confirmation by surgical resection or endoscopic retrograde cholangiography or percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopic biopsy were included. Clinicopathological findings of IPNB with invasive carcinoma or mucosal dysplasia were analyzed according to anatomical location.
Results
Of the 116 patients with intrahepatic IPNB (I-IPNB) and 80 patients with extrahepatic IPNB (E-IPNB), 62 (53.4%) and 61 (76.3%) were diagnosed with invasive carcinoma, respectively. Multivariate analysis revealed that mural nodule > 12 mm (p=0.043) in I-IPNB and enhancement of mural nodule (p=0.044) in E-IPNB were predictive factors for malignancy. Pathology discrepancy before and after surgery, IPNB has 71.2% of sensitivity and 82.3% of specificity. In the non-surgical IPNB group, composed of nine I-IPNB and seven E-IPNB, 43.7% progressed to IPNB with invasive carcinoma within 876 days.
Conclusions
E-IPNB has a higher rate of malignancy than I-IPNB. The predictive factor for malignancy is mural nodule > 12 mm in I-IPNB and mural nodule enhancement in E-IPNB.
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Funding
Has not received any funding.
Disclosures
All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
