Biliary tuberculosis causing cicatricial stenosis after oral anti-tuberculosis therapy

Table 1 Summary of the 16 previous cases and our case of tubercular biliary stricture

No.	Age	Sex	Site ofstricture	Initialpresentation	Confirmation of diagnosis	Treatment	Outcome	Reference/Nation
1	30	M	CBD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	T-tube		Gupta et al[2]/India
2	78	F	Multiple	Bacterial cholangitis	Laparotomy frozen section	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy	Died of sepsis	Abascal et al[3]/Spain
3	46	F	CHD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	PTBD, surgical bypass was abandoned	Post anti-TB therapy, pulmonary calcification	Fan et al[4]/Hong Kong, China
4	38	M	CBD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	T-tube		Ratanarapee et al[5]/Thai
5	46	F	CHD		Bile cytology	EBD (Pl, metal)	Biliary stones, restenosis	Bearer et al[6]/USA
6	40	M	CBD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	Hepaticojejunostomy		Behera et al[7]/India
7	45	F	CBD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	Hepaticojejunostomy		Valeja et al[8]/India
8	70	M	CBD, CHD	CCC	Culture of biopsy of inguinal lymph node	ERBD (refused operation)	Post anti-TB therapy, pulmonary calcification	Hickey et al[9]/Ireland
9	46	M	CBD		CT guided FNAB	EBD	Restenosis	Kok et al[10]/Brunei
10	29	F	CHD, HD		Bile cytology	Left cholangiojejunostomy		Kok et al/Brunei
11	60	F	CBD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	Open billiary stenting		Kok et al/Brunei
12	44	F	CHD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	Hepaticojejunostomy	Hepatic calcification	Kok et al/Brunei
13	33	F	CHD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	Hepaticojejunostomy		Yea et al[11]/Taiwan, China
14	70	M	HD		PCR of bile	PTBD	Billroth II reconstruction	Yea et al /Taiwan, China
15	58	M	Multiple	CCC	Tissue obtained via PTBD	PTBD (metal)	Beaded type	Inal et al[12]/Turkey
16	66	M	CBD, RHD	CCC	Laparotomy frozen section	T-tube, PTCD	Post anti TB therapy	Prasad et al[13]/India
17	33	F	CHD		PCR of bile	PTBD, EBD	Pulmonary calcification, biliary stones, restenosis	Our case/Japan

CCC: Cholangio cell carcinoma; HD: Hepatic duct, RHD: Right hepatic duct; LHD: Left hepatic duct; CHD: Common hepatic duct; CBD: Common bile duct; FNAB: Fine-needle aspiration biopsy; ERCP: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; PTCD: Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage; EBD: Endoscopic biliary drainage.