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- Title
Histopathological features and accuracy for diagnosing biliary atresia by prelaparotomy liver biopsy in developing countries.
- Authors
Rastogi, Archana; Krishnani, Narendra; Yachha, Surender Kumar; Khanna, Vikrant; Poddar, Ujjal; Lal, Richa
- Abstract
A major challenge in neonatal cholestasis (NC) is to differentiate biliary atresia (BA) from other non-atretic causes. In developing countries there are considerable problems of late referral of NC cases and performing surgery without prelaparotomy liver biopsy that contributes to a high proportion of negative laparotomy and increased morbidity. We evaluated the hepatic histopathology for presence of features that correlate best with the diagnosis of BA and assessed the accuracy of percutaneous liver biopsy.
- Publication
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology, 2009, Vol 24, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
1440-1746
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1440-1746.2008.05737.x