Hepatobiliary scan in Alagille syndrome; arteriohepatic dysplasia.

نویسندگان

  • Athanassios Zissimopoulos
  • Dimitrios Cassimos
  • Savas Deftereos
  • Panos Prassopoulos
  • Ioannis Xinias
  • Christina Pavlidou
  • Antigone Mavroudi
  • Olga Vrani
  • Athanassios Chatzimichael
چکیده

Arteriohepatic dysplasia or congenital paucity of interlobular bile ducts - Alagille Syndrome, is a well defined syndrome characterized by five major features, including chronic cholestasis, posterior embryotoxon, butterfly-like vertebral arch defects, peripheral pulmonary artery hypoplasia or stenosis and facial dysmorphy. The disease is very rare. Only three cases have been reported in Greece and none with renal involvement. Hepatobiliary scan was a fundamental tool in the patients diagnosis and therefore we present the following case.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine

دوره 12 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009