Diagnostic performance of a stepwise cytological algorithm for biliary malignancy in primary sclerosing cholangitis.

Erik von SethHelena OuchterlonyKatalin DobraAnders HjerpeUrban ArneloStephan HaasAnnika Bergquist

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2018)

Biliary brush cytology with sequential use of FISH in equivocal cases seems to be a highly predictive diagnostic test for CCA in PSC. These results support the use of FISH when cytology is equivocal for detection of biliary malignancy in PSC.

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