Bile duct hamartoma

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Micrograph of a bile duct hamartoma. Trichrome stain.
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A bile duct hamartoma or biliary hamartoma, is a benign tumour-like malformation of the liver.

They are classically associated with polycystic liver disease, as may be seen in the context of polycystic kidney disease, and represent a malformation of the liver plate.[1]

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At CT scans, bile duct hamartomas appear as small, well-defined hypo- or isoattenuating masses with little or no enhancement after contrast administration.[2] At MRI, they appear hypointense on T1-weighted images, iso- or slightly hyperintense on T2-weighted images, and hypointense after administration of gadolinium based contrast-agent.[2] On imaging, multiple hamartomas may look similar to metastases or microabscesses.

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The eponymous terms (von Meyenburg complex, Meyenburg complex) are named for Hanns von Meyenburg.[3][4]

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  2. synd/1693 at Who Named It?
  3. H. von Meyenburg. Über die Zyztenleber. Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und zur allgemeinen Pathologie, Jena, 1918, 64: 477-532.

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