Pathology of the Bile Duct

Editor: Prof. Yasuni Nakanuma, Department of Pathology, Shizuoka Cancer Centre, Shizuoka, Japan

1.Basic understanding of bile duct pathology.- Development and anatomy of bile duct.- Bicarbonate umbrella and its disruption of the bile duct.- Biliary innate immunity and its disorder.- Cellular senescence and biliary disorders.- Vascular supply of the bile duct and ischemic cholangiopathy.- 2.Practical understanding of biliary diseases.- Immunopathology of bile duct lesions of primary biliary cirrhosis.- Natural and recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis.- Recent progress of pathogenesis of IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis.- Pathology and imaging of peribiliary cysts: recent progress.- Immunopathology of biliary atresia.- Cholangiolocellular carcinoma: Is it a subtype of cholangiocarcnoma or combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcioma ?.- Pathology of intrahepatic cholangocarcinoma: peripheral and perihilar subtypesIntraductal papillary neoplasm of bile duct.- Intraductal papillary cystic neoplasm of the gallbladder and ampulla of Vater.- Cystic and micropapillary neoplasm of peribiliary glands: Its perspective to cholangiocarcinogenesis.- Biliary intraepithelial neoplasia: cancer field for nodular sclerosing cholangiocarcinoma.- Intraductal papillary cystic neoplasm of the gallbladder and ampulla of Vater.