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West Indian med. j
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49(2): 175-6, Jun. 2000. ilus
Article
in English
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| ID: lil-291959
ABSTRACT
Caroli's disease or communicating ectasia of the intrahepatic biliary tree is a rare disease with unknown aetiology. The coexistence of this along with the uncommon condition of a gastric diverticulum has never been reported before. A deficiency in the fibromuscular matrix of both the bile ducts and the gastric wall may explain why these two pathologies may coexist in a single patient.