The Outcome of the Older (≥100 Days) Infant with Biliary Atresia

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 575-581

  Davenport, M ^a   Puricelli, V ^a   Farrant, P ^a   Hadzic, N ^a   Mieli Vergani, G ^a   Portmann, B ^a   Howard, E R ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biliary atresia; Cirrhosis; Kasai portoenterostomy

Indexed keywords

AGE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; GIANT CELL; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ARTERY; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JEJUNUM; LIFE TABLE; LIVER; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BILIARY ATRESIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INFANT; JEJUNUM; LIFE TABLES; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3442890909     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2003.12.014     Document Type: Article

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