The perinatal transition of the hepatobiliary cyst size provides information about the condition of bile flow in biliary cystic malformation cases

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1397-1402

  Saito, Takeshi ^a,d   Horie, Hiroshi ^b   Yoshida, Hideo ^a   Matsunaga, Tadashi ^a   Kouchi, Katsunori ^a   Kuroda, Hiroaki ^a   Etoh, Takao ^b   Higashimoto, Yasuyuki ^b   Kuriyama, Hiroshi ^c   Ohnuma, Naomi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Matsudo City Hospital   (Japan)

^d Naruto General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenatal ultrasonography; Biliary atresia; Biliary cystic malformation; Choledochal cyst; Paucity of the intrahepatic bile duct

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE DUCT CYST; BILE FLOW; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT CYST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; JAUNDICE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MALE; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BILE; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILIARY ATRESIA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLEDOCHAL CYST; CYSTS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER; MALE; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33746041823     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.04.014     Document Type: Article

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