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Cholangitis

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Definition: Inflammation of biliary tracts.

Types

- acute cholangitis
- chronic cholangitis

Etiology (Exemples)

- genetic cholangitis
- infectious cholangitis

- dysimmune cholangitis (auto-immune cholangitis)

Localization

- intra-hepatic cholangitis

- extra-hepatic cholangitis (angiocholitis)