Abstract:Background and purpose: Preoperative diagnosis of bile duct tumor thrombus (BDTT) is clinically important as the surgical prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with BDTT is significantly different from that of patients without BDTT. The preoperative diagnosis of BDTT is usually based on identification of dilated bile ducts (DBDs) on medical images (eg., CT and MRI images). However, it is easy for doctors to ignore DBDs when reporting the imaging scan result, leading to a high misdiagnosis rate i… Show more
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