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.

Blocked bile duct tumor.

Normally bile is made by the liver and released into the intestine. When the bile duct is blocked the liver cannot excrete bile. 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. Bile ducts connect your liver to your gallbladder and to your small intestine.

People with bile duct obstruction also often experience. 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. This condition also known as bile duct cancer is an uncommon form of cancer that occurs mostly in people older than age 50 though it can occur at any age. A gallstone or scar tissue can also block the bile duct.

Cholangiocarcinoma is cancer that forms in the slender tubes bile ducts that carry the digestive fluid bile. When bile duct cancer does cause symptoms it s usually because a bile duct is blocked. However it s important to note that a blockage is not always a cancerous tumor. There are three general locations where this type of cancer may arise within the bile drainage system.