Bile duct to portal space ratio and ductal plate remnants in liver disease of infants aged less than 1 year

References

• Sergi C, Jundt K, Seipp S, et al. The distribution of HBV, HCV and HGV among livers with fulminant hepatic failure of different aetiology. J Hepatol 1998; 29: 861–871
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Suchy F J. Bile formation: Mechanisms and development. Liver Disease in Children, F J Suchy. Mosby-Year Book, St Louis 1994; 57–80
   Google Scholar
• Desmet V J. Intrahepatic bile ducts under the lens. J Hepatol 1985; 1: 545–559
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kahn E. Biliary atresia revisited. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2004; 7: 109–124
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sergi C, Kahl P, Otto H F. Contribution of apoptosis and apoptosis-related proteins to the malformation of the primitive intrahepatic biliary system in Meckel syndrome. Am J Pathol 2000; 156: 1589–1598
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moll R, Franke W W, Schiller D L, Geiger B, Krepler R. The catalog of human cytokeratin polypeptides: Patterns of expression of specific cytokeratins in normal epithelia, tumors, and cultured cells. Cell 1982; 31: 11–24
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Eyken P, Sciot R, Callea F, Van der Steen K, Moerman P, Desmet V J. The development of the intrahepatic bile ducts in man: a keratin-immunohistochemical study. Hepatology 1988; 8: 1586–1595
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bezerra J A, Balistreri W F. Cholestatic syndromes of infancy and childhood. Semin Gastrointest Dis 2001; 12: 54–65
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Johnson C A, Gissen P, Sergi C. Molecular pathology and genetics of congenital hepatorenal fibrocystic syndromes. J Med Genet 2003; 40: 311–319
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sergi C, Adam S, Kahl P, Otto H F. Study of the malformation of ductal plate of the liver in Meckel syndrome and review of other syndromes presenting with this anomaly. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2000; 3: 568–583
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Snover D C. Biopsy in the evaluation of neonatal and infantile cholestasis. Biopsy Diagnosis of Liver Disease, D C Snover. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore 1992
   Google Scholar
• Landing B H. Considerations of the pathogenesis of neonatal hepatitis, biliary atresia and choledochal cyst—the concept of infantile obstructive cholangiopathy. Prog Pediatr Surg 1974; 6: 113–139
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Bates M D, Bucuvalas J C, Alonso M H, Ryckman F C. Biliary atresia: pathogenesis and treatment. Semin Liver Dis 1998; 18: 281–293
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Raweily E A, Gibson A A, Burt A D. Abnormalities of intrahepatic bile ducts in extrahepatic biliary atresia. Histopathology 1990; 17: 521–527
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Treem W R, Krzymowski G A, Cartun R W, Pedersen C A, Hyams J S, Berman M. Cytokeratin immunohistochemical examination of liver biopsies in infants with Alagille syndrome and biliary atresia. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1992; 15: 73–80
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• De Tommaso A M, Kawasaki A S, Hessel G. Paucity of intrahepatic bile ducts in infancy—experience of a tertiary center. Arq Gastroenterol 2004; 41: 190–192
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Azar G, Beneck D, Lane B, Markowitz J, Daum F, Kahn E. Atypical morphologic presentation of biliary atresia and value of serial liver biopsies. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2002; 34: 212–215
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yehezkely-Schildkraut V, Munichor M, Mandel H, et al. Nonsyndromic paucity of interlobular bile ducts: report of 10 patients. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2003; 37: 546–549
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fabris L, Strazzabosco M, Crosby H A, et al. Characterization and isolation of ductular cells coexpressing neural cell adhesion molecule and Bcl-2 from primary cholangiopathies and ductal plate malformations. Am J Pathol 2000; 156: 1599–1612
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Libbrecht L, Cassiman D, Desmet V, Roskams T. Expression of neural cell adhesion molecule in human liver development and in congenital and acquired liver diseases. Histochem Cell Biol 2001; 116: 233–239
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Altman R P, Lilly J R, Greenfeld J, Weinberg A, van Leeuwen K, Flanigan L. A multivariable risk factor analysis of the portoenterostomy (Kasai) procedure for biliary atresia: twenty-five years of experience from two centers. Ann Surg 1997; 226: 348–353
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Burt A D, Mutton A, Day C P. Diagnosis and interpretation of steatosis and steatohepatitis. Semin Diagn Pathol 1998; 15: 246–258
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sergi C, Adam S, Kahl P, Otto H F. The remodeling of the primitive human biliary system. Early Hum Dev 2000; 58: 167–178
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whitfield J B. Gamma glutamyl transferase. Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci 2001; 38: 263–355
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar