Caroli's disease associated with a gastric diverticulum.
Caroli's disease or communicating ectasia of the intrahepatic biliary tree is a rare disease with unknown aetiology. The coexistence of this along with the uncommon condition of a gastric diverticulum has never been reported before. A deficiency in the fibromuscular matrix of both the bile ducts and the gastric wall may explain why these two pathologies may coexist in a single patient.
Naraynsingh
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Department of Surgery, University of the West Indies, Port of Spain General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago. vijay@wow.net
Maharaj
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D
Busby
G O
GO
Raju
G C
GC
Jankey
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N
D000328:Adult; D016767:Caroli Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013273:Diverticulum, Stomach / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans