Yoshinobu Nishioka

Biliary Cystadenoma of the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

Benign neoplasms of the extrahepatic bile ducts are rare and there have only been thirteen reported cases of cystadenoma. One case of cystadenoma of the common hepatic duct and solitary hepatic cyst is presented here and a total of fourteen cases are reviewed. The patient was a 45 year old woman, who complained of abdominal pain with rigidity, but without jaundice. Ultrasonography of the liver showed a 6 cm cyst of the right lobe. Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography revealed a multilobular cystic mass. At emergency laparotomy, a polypoid multilobular tumor with a stalk was found hanging from the common hepatic duct and was excised. Almost all the patients reported were middle aged woman with jaundice. Preoperative diagnosis was made possible by percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography or ultrasonography. The treatment of choice was complete excision. In three cases, a solitary hepatic cyst accompanied the cystadenoma of the common hepatic duct.

The enhanced therapeutic efficacy of intra-arterialCis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) chemotherapy in combination with aortic clamping on metastatic hepatic tumors in the rat

The efficacy of intrahepaticcis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II), cisplatin, administered via the hepatic artery in combination with concomitant clamping of the abdominal aorta beneath the diaphragm against metastatic liver tumors in rats was evaluated. When 2.5 or 5 mg/kg of cisplatin was injected intra-arterially (i.a.) over 5 min, the antitumor activities in the rats with aortic clamping, evaluated by the number of tumor nodules and survival days after treatment, were found to be superior to those in the rats without aortic clamping. Side effects, evaluated in terms of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase and glutamic pyruvic transaminase levels, changes in body weight, and the number of leukocytes, did not differ significantly among the rats with or without aortic clamping. The blood urea nitrogen levels observed in the rats with aortic clamping were lower than in those without aortic clamping. Immediately after the injection of cisplatin 5 mg/kg i.a., the platinum concentrations in the livers of rats with aortic clamp-platinum concentrations in the livers of rats with aortic clamping were approximately 2.1 times higher than in those without aortic clamping, and 1.4 times higher even 60 min after the injection. These increased platinum concentrations in the liver explain the enhanced antitumor activities of the rats given cisplatin with aortic clamping.