title: [Surgery and cystic malformations of the bile ducts].
abstract: Bile duct cysts are usually diagnosed during infancy and childhood, although 20-30% become symptomatic in adults, sometimes as late as the seventh decade of life. The Todani modification of the Alonso-Lej classification is now generally accepted and has clarified a previously confusing literature. Treatment is surgical: resectional rather than the traditional drainage procedures are indicated. This aggressive approach decreases but does not abolish the risk of cancer in the hepato-bilio-pancreatic tree. The patients must therefore be followed up for life.
authors.affiliation: Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mosimann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017734:Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Chirurgie et malformations kystiques des voies biliaires.