Biliary atresia is a rare disease of infancy, which has changed within 30 years from being
fatal to being a disorder for which effective palliative surgery or curative liver transplantation …

Background In extrahepatic biliary atresia (EHBA) obstruction of the biliary tree causes
severe cholestasis leading to cirrhosis and death if left untreated in a timely manner. Infants …

Purpose To evaluate the diagnostic performance of ultrasonography (US) in the
identification and exclusion of biliary atresia with a modified triangular cord thickness metric …

OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to prospectively assess the role of abdominal
sonography in the preoperative diagnosis of extrahepatic biliary atresia (EHBA) in infants …

Results: Cannulation of the papilla was successful in 95 of 104 patients (success rate
91.3%). Biliary atresia of any type was found in 51 children (53.7%), with a sensitivity of …

Objectives To evaluate the diagnostic performance of sonographic features of biliary atresia
in patients with infantile cholestasis. Methods The Ovid‐MEDLINE and EMBASE databases …

Objectives To describe and evaluate an additional sonographic sign in the diagnosis of
biliary atresia (BA), the microcyst of the porta hepatis, in comparison with previously …

Diagnosis of biliary atresia (BA) in infants presenting with cholestatic jaundice (CJ) requires
exploratory surgery with cholangiography. However, the lack of a standardized approach to …

Rationale and Objectives To develop and validate a nomogram that incorporates the
gallbladder morphology, hepatic elasticity, and demographic information for the prediction of …

Background It is a globally challenging problem to differentially diagnose biliary atresia (BA)
from other disease processes causing infantile cholestatic jaundice. The high-frequency …