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CC BY 4.0 · European J Pediatr Surg Rep. 2018; 06(01): e83-e86
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1673379
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

An Unusual Case of Choledochal Cyst

Manish Pathak
1   Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
,
Rahul Saxena
1   Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
,
T.K. Jayakumar
1   Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
,
Arvind Sinha
1   Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
,
Taruna Yadav
2   Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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05 July 2018

23 August 2018

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18 October 2018 (online)

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Abstract

Choledochal cyst (CC) is an important surgical cause of jaundice in infants. Infantile variant of CC can mimic biliary atresia in clinical presentation. CC associated with biliary atresia is well described in literature. We encountered an atretic variant of CC that has not been described in literature ever. The characteristics of this unusual case, management, and proposed hypothesis to its pathogenesis are discussed here.

Keywords

choledochal cyst - cystic biliary atresia - atretic variant
 

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