HÜSEYİN ÖZKURT, BARIŞ TÜRK, NURAN YILMAZ, MUZAFFER BAŞAK
Çağdaş Cerrahi Dergisi (Logos) - 2004;18(4):198-200
Caroli disease is a rare congenital abnormality characterized by multifocal saccular and cystic dilatation of intrahepatic biliary ducts. The complications of Caroli disease are bile stasis with recurrent cholangitis, biliary calculi, hepatic abscess, septicemia and cholangiocarcinoma. Early diagnosis and treatment protects the patients from complications. MR imaging provide information about involvement of intrahepatic biliary ducts and liver, severity and accompanying abnormalities, such as portal hypertension, cirrhosis, renal involvement in the diagnosis of Caroli disease. This information useful in planning the best therapeutic strategy. In this report was to describe the main features of MR imaging in type I Caroli disease.
