Related Experiment Videos
Presentation of choledochal cysts without intrabiliary communication on endoscopic retrograde
R M Jindal1, N Harris, H M McDaniel
1Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA.
Liver Transplantation and Surgery : Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
Choledochal cysts have generally been described to communicate with the biliary system. We recently saw three adult patients in whom we could not demonstrate biliary communication between the cyst and the biliary tree, despite a carefully performed endoscopic cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). These cases may represent a variant of type II choledochal cysts. During the 5-year period of review of ERCP records, 30 choledochal cysts were diagnosed, of which 3 (10%) were the noncommunicating cases described in this report.