Spontaneous resolution of extrahepatic biliary obstruction in a neonate |
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Authors: | J. E. EVANS,J. C. VANCE&dagger |
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Affiliation: | Departments of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Queensland, Australia;Child Health, Mater Children's Hospital, Mater Hill, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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Abstract: | A patient with spontaneous resolution of complete extrahepatic biliary obstruction shortly after the neonatal period is described. Liver biopsy prior to resolution revealed widened portal tracts and extensive fibrosis; these changes normalized following resolution. The aetiology was not established but possibilities included a choledochal cyst, localized inflammation; for example, pancreatitis, a calculus of the common bile duct or a congenital membrane. Management of this patient would have been advanced if there were a paediatric size side-viewing duodenoscope which would have diagnostic and therapeutic potentials. |
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Keywords: | extrahepatic biliary obstruction neonate paediatric side-viewing duodenoscope spontaneous resolution |
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