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Twenty one patients with choledochocyst in 10-year period, 1963 to 1972, were treated at the Juntendo University Hospital and San-Iku-Kai Hospital. As for the exact diagnosis in these patients, the ultrasonic echo examination was a reliable method of determining the correct diagnosis in early infancy. According to the histopathological examination of the cyst and of the liver from the patients, three types of histological patterns were observed in patients with choledochal cyst. These findings may be related to the prognosis of the choledochal cyst in early infancy. Therefore, we believe that patients with choledochal cyst who have jaundice and who are under one year of age should be treated as “infantile jaundice” type, since both the problems in managemant and the prognosis in these patients are very much different from those in older patients with choledochal cyst.
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Suruga, K. Clinical and pathological study on choledochocyst. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 3, 199–202 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02468773
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