Blocked Bile Duct Tumor

Bile ducts connect your liver to your gallbladder and to your small intestine.

Blocked bile duct tumor.

Symptoms tend to depend on whether the cancer is in ducts inside the liver intrahepatic or in ducts outside the liver extrahepatic and include. Itching abdominal pain usually in the upper right side fever or night sweats nausea and vomiting tiredness or lack of energy unintentional weight loss loss of appetite. A gallstone or scar tissue can also block the bile duct. Those are thin tubes about 4 to 5 inches long that move a fluid called bile from.

Within the liver intrahepatic affecting the bile ducts located within the liver just outside of the liver extrahepatic or perihilar located at the notch of the liver where the bile ducts exit. Cholangiocarcinoma is cancer that forms in the slender tubes bile ducts that carry the digestive fluid bile. People with bile duct obstruction also often experience. However it s important to note that a blockage is not always a cancerous tumor.

When the bile duct is blocked the liver cannot excrete bile. There are three general locations where this type of cancer may arise within the bile drainage system. Normally bile is made by the liver and released into the intestine. When bile duct cancer does cause symptoms it s usually because a bile duct is blocked.