Primary sclerosing cholangitis differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Dima Nimri, M.D. [2]
Overview
Primary sclerosing cholangitis must be differentiated from causes of secondary sclerosing cholangitis.
Differentiating Primary sclerosing cholangitis from other Diseases
Primary sclerosing cholangitis must be differentiated from causes of secondary sclerosing cholangitis. These include:
- Abdominal trauma
- AIDS-related cholangiopathy
- Amyloidosis
- Chronic bacterial cholangitis
- GVHD
- Hepatic inflammatory pseudotumor
- Histiocytosis X
- Iatrogenic biliary strictures, due to surgery or ERCP
- IgG4-associated cholangitis
- Infectious or ischemic cholangiopathy
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Choledocholithiasis
- Diffuse intrahepatic metastases
- Eosinophilic cholangitis
- Intra-arterial chemotherapy
- Mast cell cholangiopathy
- Portal hypertensive biliopathy
- Recurrent pancreatitis
- Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis
- Sarcoidosis
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