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Congenital dilatation of the biliary ducts is a rare anomaly affecting the extrahepatic or intrahepatic biliary tree, or both. The first description of this pathological entity was that of Vater in 1723 [1], but only in the twentieth century did Vachel and Stevens (1906) and later Caroli (1958) [2] give a more detailed definition, with a classification provided by Todani in 1977 [3].
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Pavone, P., Passariello, R. (1997). Congenital Dilatation of the Biliary System. In: MR Cholangiopancreatography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60461-4_3
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