Naraynsingh V, Maharaj D, Busby G O, Raju G C, Jankey N
Department of Surgery, University of the West Indies, Port of Spain General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago.
West Indian Med J. 2000 Jun;49(2):175-6.
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.