• Department of General Surgery, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042;
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The mumber of Polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) in hepatic tissue increased in the rats with cholangitis, PMN infiltration was mainly in the hepatic sinus in the early stage; and PMN infiltration presented around the hepatocytes 12 hours after infection. Degeneration and necrosis of the hepatic cells was also observed in the rats with acute cholangitis. Only 40 percent of the rats survived 24 hours after infection. Depletion of circulating PMN decreased the damage and necrosis of hepatocytes and improving the survival rate of the infected rats. The results suggest that PMN infiltration plays an important role in hepatic damage in acute cholangitis.

Citation: Huang Xiankai,Han Benli.. POLYMORPHONUCLEAR AGGREGATION OF LEUKOCYTE IN ACUTE CHOLANGITIS AND ITS ROLE IN HEPATIC DAMAGE. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 1999, 6(3): 146-147. doi: Copy