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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Management of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.

Sudha Kodali, Akshay Shetty, Soumya Shekhar, David W Victor, Rafik M Ghobrial

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sudha KodaliSherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Akshay ShettySherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Soumya ShekharTexas A&M College of Medicine, Houston Campus, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3498-8390
David W VictorSherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Rafik M GhobrialSherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cholangiocarcinoma is a tumor that arises as a result of differentiation of the cholangiocytes and can develop from anywhere in the biliary tree. Subtypes of cholangiocarcinoma are differentiated based on their location in the biliary tree. If diagnosed early these can be resected, but most cases of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma present late in the disease course where surgical resection is not an option. In these patients who are poor candidates for resection, a combination of chemotherapy, locoregional therapies like ablation, transarterial chemo and radioembolization, and in very advanced and metastatic disease, external radiation are the available options. These modalities can improve overall disease-free and progression-free survival chances. In this review, we will discuss the risk factors and clinical presentation of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, diagnosis, available therapeutic options, and future directions for management options.

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brachytherapychemotherapycholangiocarcinomaintrahepaticproton beam therapyresectionshort-beam external radiationtransarterial chemoembolization (TACE), Yttrium-90 (Y90), chemotherapytransplantation

Identifiers

PMID34072277
PMCPMC8198953

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