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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698407603321

Autore

Hays D. M.

Titolo

Biliary Atresia : The Japanese Experience / / D. M. Hays, Ken Kimura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2014]

©1980

ISBN

0-674-49246-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2014]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Commonwealth Fund Publications

Disciplina

617/.556

Soggetti

Bile Ducts -- abnormalities

Bile Ducts -- surgery

Biliary Tract Diseases

Biliary atresia -- Surgery -- Japan

Biliary atresia -- Surgery

MEDICAL / Diseases

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. History -- 2. Pediatric and Surgical Management of Infants with Cholestatic Jaundice in Japan -- 3. Differential Diagnosis in Japan -- 4. Current Classifications and Variant Forms of Biliary Atresia -- 5. Surgical Techniques and Procedures in Japan -- 6. Results -- 7. Ascending Cholangitis: The Major Complication -- 8. Portal Hypertension -- 9. Biliary Atresia, Hepatic Fibrosis, and Cirrhosis -- 10. Anastomotic Revisions and Secondary Surgical Procedures -- 11. Long-Range Survivors -- 12. Hepatic Portoenterostomy for Biliary Atresia: Experience outside of Japan -- 13. Attitudes of North American and Japanese Surgeons toward the Management of Biliary Atresia -- 14. Summary -- Appendix. References. Index -- Appendix -- References -- Index