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- Liver Disease in Children
- Liver Disease in Children
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section I Pathophysiology of Pediatric Liver Disease
- Section II Cholestatic Liver Disease
- Chapter 8 Approach to the Infant with Cholestasis
- Chapter 9 Medical and Nutritional Management of Cholestasis in Infants and Children
- Chapter 10 Neonatal Hepatitis and Congenital Infections
- Chapter 11 Biliary Atresia and Other Disorders of the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts
- Chapter 12 Neonatal Jaundice and Disorders of Bilirubin Metabolism
- Chapter 13 Familial Hepatocellular Cholestasis
- Chapter 14 Alagille Syndrome
- Chapter 15 Intestinal Failure Associated Liver Disease
- Chapter 16 Diseases of the Gallbladder in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
- Section III Hepatitis and Immune Disorders
- Section IV Metabolic Liver Disease
- Section V Other Considerations and Issues in Pediatric Hepatology
- Index
- References
Chapter 16 - Diseases of the Gallbladder in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
from Section II - Cholestatic Liver Disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2021
- Liver Disease in Children
- Liver Disease in Children
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section I Pathophysiology of Pediatric Liver Disease
- Section II Cholestatic Liver Disease
- Chapter 8 Approach to the Infant with Cholestasis
- Chapter 9 Medical and Nutritional Management of Cholestasis in Infants and Children
- Chapter 10 Neonatal Hepatitis and Congenital Infections
- Chapter 11 Biliary Atresia and Other Disorders of the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts
- Chapter 12 Neonatal Jaundice and Disorders of Bilirubin Metabolism
- Chapter 13 Familial Hepatocellular Cholestasis
- Chapter 14 Alagille Syndrome
- Chapter 15 Intestinal Failure Associated Liver Disease
- Chapter 16 Diseases of the Gallbladder in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
- Section III Hepatitis and Immune Disorders
- Section IV Metabolic Liver Disease
- Section V Other Considerations and Issues in Pediatric Hepatology
- Index
- References
Summary
The hepatic rudiment appears at approximately day 18 of gestation in the human embryo. By day 25 it can be recognized as an endodermal diverticulum, which projects into the mesenchymal septum transversum. By day 30 the hepatic diverticulum enlarges and divides into the pars hepatica, cranially, and the pars cystica, caudally. The pars hepatica forms parenchymal liver components; the pars cystica differentiates into the gallbladder and cystic ducts (Figure 16.1). The gallbladder primordium is a solid structure that later in development becomes cystic, as found in the adult [1].
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- Liver Disease in Children , pp. 255 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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