Dubin-Johnson syndrome

Dubin-Johnson syndrome (DJS) is a benign, inherited liver disorder characterized clinically by chronic, predominantly conjugated, hyperbilirubinemia and histopathologically by black-brown pigment deposition in parenchymal liver cells.

Cirrhosis

A chronic disorder of the liver in which liver tissue becomes scarred and is partially replaced by regenerative nodules and fibrotic tissue resulting in loss of liver function.


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Hepatocellular carcinoma in a case of Dubin-Johnson syndrome treated successfully with a central bilateral segmentectomy.
Shikada Y, Matsumata T, Suehiro T, Sugimachi K.
Hepatogastroenterology. 2004;51(57):833-6.
While the preoperative serum bilirubin level is one of the established criteria for determining the indications for a hepatic resection, it is not effective for HCV cirrhosis cases associated with Dubin-Johnson syndrome.