An Unusual Case of Choledochal Cyst

Choledochal cyst (CC) is an important surgical cause of jaundice in infants. Infantile variant of CC can mimic biliary atresia in clinical presentation. CC associated with biliary atresia is well described in literature. We encountered an atretic variant of CC that has not been described in literatu...

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Autores principales: Pathak, Manish, Saxena, Rahul, Jayakumar, T.K., Sinha, Arvind, Yadav, Taruna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6202579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30370205
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1673379
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author Pathak, Manish
Saxena, Rahul
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Sinha, Arvind
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description Choledochal cyst (CC) is an important surgical cause of jaundice in infants. Infantile variant of CC can mimic biliary atresia in clinical presentation. CC associated with biliary atresia is well described in literature. We encountered an atretic variant of CC that has not been described in literature ever. The characteristics of this unusual case, management, and proposed hypothesis to its pathogenesis are discussed here.
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spelling pubmed-62025792018-10-26 An Unusual Case of Choledochal Cyst Pathak, Manish Saxena, Rahul Jayakumar, T.K. Sinha, Arvind Yadav, Taruna European J Pediatr Surg Rep Choledochal cyst (CC) is an important surgical cause of jaundice in infants. Infantile variant of CC can mimic biliary atresia in clinical presentation. CC associated with biliary atresia is well described in literature. We encountered an atretic variant of CC that has not been described in literature ever. The characteristics of this unusual case, management, and proposed hypothesis to its pathogenesis are discussed here. Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018-01 2018-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6202579/ /pubmed/30370205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1673379 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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