title: Complications following the Kasai operation for biliary atresia: European experience.
abstract: Biliary atresia is a rare but important disease of infancy having an incidence of about 1 in 16,000 births. In most infants the disease process involves both the intra- and extra hepatic parts of the biliary system (Fig. 1) and histologically it has been characterized as a panductular cholangiopathy. Destruction and disappearance of biliary structures is progressive.
authors.affiliation: King's College Hospital, London, England.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davenport
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Howard