| AIC | Akaike Information Criterion |
| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| BIC | Bayesian Information Criterion |
| CC | Cholangiocarcinoma |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| DCC | Distal Cholangiocarcinoma |
| ECC | Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma |
| EPV | Event-per-variable |
| ICC | Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma |
| IQR | Interquartile Range |
| LNM | Lymph Node Metastasis |
| NROC | National Research Oncology Center |
| PCC | Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma |
| PTBD | Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage |
| RR | Risk Ratio |
| SE | Standard Error |
| TNM | Tumor Nodes Metastases |
| VIF | Variance Inflation Factor |
| WRP | Will Rogers Phenomenon |