Congenital Obliteration of the Bile-ducts

On Congenital Obliteration of the Bile-Ducts

Congenital Obliteration of Bile Ducts and Icterus Gravis Neonatorum.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Medicine and the State, with Special Reference to the E.M.S. The Right HIoni. WALTEIR ELLIOT, F.R.C.P., F.R.S. ......................................................911 Congenital Obliteration of Bile Ducts and Icterus Gravis Neonatorum M. 0. SKELTON, M.B., and GEOFFREY FH. TOVEY, M.D . .D .............................. ............. 914 The Rh Factor and Blood Transfusion W. ...

Case Report Congenital Obliteration of the Bile

John Thomson' has shown that the clinical condition entitled congenital obliteration of the bile ducts may depend upon a number of somewhat different anatomical deformities. From his study he concluded that the pathological process was primarily a developmental arrest. He described aplasia and narrowing of the ducts which he believed caused obstruction. This he thought gave rise to the cirrhosi...

Congenital atresia of the bile ducts.

Congenital absence of the intrahepatic bile ducts.

Routine histological examination of the liver during the acute stages of neonatal obstructive jaundice, whether of biopsy or of autopsy specimens, reveals a variety of different pathological conditions. Congenital absence of the intrahepatic bile ducts appears to be a rare cause of obstructive jaundice in the newborn. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the condition by reporting ...