A 30 year old man with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome presented with obstructive jaundice caused by a carcinoid tumour of the mid- and upper common bile duct. This association is probably causally related in view of the propensity for patients with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome to develop neuroendocrine tumours.
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Fellows, I. W., Leach, I. H., Smith, P. G., Toghill, P. J., & Doran, J. (1990). Carcinoid tumour of the common bile duct - A novel complication of von Hippel-Lindau syndrome. Gut, 31(6), 728–729. https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.31.6.728
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