Metastatic prostate cancer simulating sclerosing cholangitis

J Clin Gastroenterol. 1993 Mar;16(2):143-5. doi: 10.1097/00004836-199303000-00013.

Abstract

We report what we believe to be the first case of metastatic prostate cancer presenting as sclerosing cholangitis. In a 71-year-old man with known prostate cancer and cholestatic jaundice, an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography revealed multifocal strictures of both the intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary system consistent with sclerosing cholangitis. Review of a liver biopsy and cholecystectomy specimen showed metastases from prostate cancer, which stained positively with prostate-specific antigen. Multiple hepatic metastases from prostate cancer should be included among the conditions that simulate primary sclerosing cholangitis on cholangiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / diagnosis
  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Aged
  • Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde
  • Cholangitis, Sclerosing / diagnostic imaging*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Male
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*