Reduced ratio of portal tracts to paucity of intrahepatic bile ducts
Hadchouel, M.; Hugon, R.N.; Gautier, M.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 102(8): 402
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9985 PMID: 580878 Document Number: 133647
The syndrome of "paucity" of intrahepatic bile ducts is characterized by a reduction of the ratio of interlobular bile ducts to portal areas. The present unidirectional study of liver biopsy specimens in cases of so-called intrahepatic biliary atresia, controlled essentially by age-matched autopsy control, showed that there is also a reduced number of portal areas in the livers of these subjects. This fact suggests an injury to the vascular anlage associated with biliary injury.