Background/aims: To summarize the experience of diagnosis and surgical treatment of mucin-producing bile duct tumors (MPBTs).
Methodology: A retrospective analysis was undertaken to determine the radiography characteristics and results of surgical treatment of MPBTs over the past 9 years. Only eight patients underwent such treatment. The detailed data of diagnosis, treatment and prognosis were carefully studied.
Results: Intermittent jaundice was the most frequently clinical manifestation of MPBTs, with unique characteristics on magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MPCP) when compared with gallbladder carcino-ma, hilar cholangiocarcinoma and distal bile duct can-cer. All the 8 patients with MPBTs received appropriate surgical procedure and were cured.
Conclusions: Appropriate diagnosis and curative hepatectomy for MPBTs made it possible to achieve long-term survival.