Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of cystic biliary atresia

Baptiste Morel1, Kamila Kolanska2, Ferdinand Dhombres2

  • 1AP-HP Hôpital Armand Trousseau Service de Radiologie pédiatrique Paris France.

Clinical Case Reports
|January 7, 2016
PubMed

Nonvisualization of the gallbladder during the second trimester of pregnancy should prompt concern for biliary atresia. A normal-sized gallbladder with irregular and crenelated wall associated with a cyst of the extrahepatic tract should raise concern for cystic biliary atresia.