Table 6 Biliary tract diseases or origin of benign biliary stricture in targeted patients.

From: The efficacy of biliary and serum macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 for diagnosing biliary tract cancer

Benign (n = 29)

Malignant (n = 23)

CBD stones

19

Biliary ductal cancer

22

Chronic pancreatitis

2

Gall bladder cancer

1

Autoimmune pancreatitis

2

  

Acute pancreatitis

1

  

Cholecystitis

1

  

Lemmel syndrome

1

  

PSC

1

  

IPMN

1

  

CBD stricture by unknown origin

1

  
  1. CBD, central biliary duct; PSC, primary sclerosing cholangitis; IPMN, intraductal papillary neoplasm.
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