Histologic features of the portal plate in extrahepatic biliary atresia and their impact on prognosis--a Danish study.

Background/purpose: The aims of this study are as follows:

Method: From 1979 to 2003, 57 children have been operated by the Kasai procedure. Only 40 of these have had their portal plate removed for histologic examination. We divided the patients according to clinical outcome into a successful and a failure group and compared the histologic features of the portal plates in the 2 groups.