A Case of Abnormal Intrahepatic Bile Duct Arrangement Submitted to Three Dimensional Reconstruction

A case of abnormal intrahepatic bile duct arrangement, which in all probability should be classified as congenital hepatic fibrosis, was submitted to three‐dimensional reconstruction. This proved that the duct system of the portal tracts had the form of curving plates. This unusual architecture is compared with the embryological development of the intrahepatic bile duct system. On this base a hypothesis of the pathogenesis of the abnormal findings is presented.