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A case of needle tract seeding of an intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) after percutaneous biopsy Volume 24, numéro 1, January-February 2014

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Department of Dermatology,
Kanto Rosai Hospital, 1-1,
Kitsukisumiyoshi, Nakahara-ku,
Kanagawa, 211-8510, Japan

Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) has recently been proposed as a new disease entity, which is histologically characterized by dilated intrahepatic bile ducts filled with papillary or villous neoplastic biliary epithelium [1-3]. IPNB is very rare and clinical and histological characteristics are not fully understood. We herein report an 82-year-old Japanese man in which IPNB seeded to the skin at the port site 23 months after percutaneous needle biopsy.He was referred to us for [...]