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Volume 2013, Issue 1
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Abstract

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas are rare, aggressive tumours. We discuss an afflicted patient who had relatively larger thrombi disseminated into the right atrium. A 63-year-old female patient with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma referred with complaints of swellings on her face, upper half of her body, and both arms. On contrast-enhanced thoracic CT scans and transthoracic echocardiograms of the patient an intraluminal thrombus measuring 36.3 × 25.7 mm extending to the orifice of the right atrium was seen. Thrombolytics were not successful in reducing the dimensions of the thrombus.

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