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Recent progress in the etiopathogenesis of pediatric biliary disease, particularly Caroli's disease with congenital hepatic fibrosis and biliary atresia.
Histology and histopathology - 1 Feb 2010
Nakanuma Yasuni, Harada Kenichi, Sato Yasunori, Ikeda Hiroko
Abstract excerpt
Recent progress in elucidating the etiopathogenesis of pediatric biliary diseases, particularly Caroli's disease with congenital hepatic fibrosis (CHF) and biliary atresia (BA), is reviewed. The former is characterized by multiple saccular dilatations of the intrahepatic bile ducts. An animal model of this disease, the PCK rat, is being extensively studied. PCK rats and Calori's disease with CHF belong to...
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