Impact of age at Kasai operation on its results in late childhood and adolescence: A rational basis for biliary atresia screening

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1280-1286

  Serinet, Marie Odile ^a   Wildhaber, Barbara E ^a,b   Broué, Pierre ^a   Lachaux, Alain ^a   Sarles, Jacques ^a   Jacquemin, Emmanuel ^a   Gauthier, Frédéric ^a   Chardot, Christophe ^a,b  

^a French Observatory of Biliary Atresia   (France)

^b Hopital des Enfants Hopitaux universitaires de Geneve   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biliary atresia; Kasai; Outcome; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BILIARY ATRESIA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66049112396     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-1949     Document Type: Article

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