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Clinical Pictures of Intrahepatic Lithiasis

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Intrahepatic stone disease, or hepatolithiasis, is a disease with distinctive epidemiological, pathogenetic and therapeutic features. This disease is rare in Western countries, whereas it is endemic in some Asian countries. It is defined as presence of gall-stones in intrahepatic the bile ducts, proximal to bile duct bifurcation [1]. Hepatolithiasis is primary when stones are formed de novo in the intrahepatic bile ducts, whereas it is secondary when extrahepatic gallstones migrate into the intrahepatic bile ducts [2–4]. The disease is associated with biliary stricture, primary disease of bile ducts (primitive sclerosing cholangitis, Caroli’s disease, choledochal cysts), neoplasm or parasitic infestation.

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Ruzzenente, A., Zugni, C., Guglielmi, A. (2008). Clinical Pictures of Intrahepatic Lithiasis. In: Biliary Lithiasis. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0763-5_38

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