Complications following the Kasai operation for biliary atresia: European experience.
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.
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King's College Hospital, London, England.
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