ERCP image showing the biliary tree and the main pancreatic duct.
Details
Identifiers
Latin
ductus biliaris
MeSH
D001652
TA98
A05.8.02.013 A05.8.01.062 A05.8.01.065
TA2
3103
FMA
9706
Anatomical terminology
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1. Bile ducts: 2. Intrahepatic bile ducts, 3. Left and right hepatic ducts, 4. Common hepatic duct, 5. Cystic duct, 6. Common bile duct, 7. Ampulla of Vater, 8. Major duodenal papilla 9. Gallbladder. 10–11. Right and left lobes of liver. 12. Spleen. 13. Esophagus. 14. Stomach. 15. Pancreas: 16. Accessory pancreatic duct, 17. Pancreatic duct. 18. Small intestine: 19. Duodenum, 20. Jejunum 21–22. Right and left kidneys. The front border of the liver has been lifted up (brown arrow).[1]
A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile, and is present in most vertebrates. The bile duct is separated into three main parts: the fundus (superior), the body (middle), and the neck (inferior).
Bile is required for the digestion of food and is secreted by the liver into passages that carry bile toward the hepatic duct. It joins the cystic duct (carrying bile to and from the gallbladder) to form the common bile duct which then opens into the intestine.
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A bileduct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile, and is present in most vertebrates. The bileduct is separated into three...
The bileduct (formerly known as the common bileduct) is a part of the biliary tract. It is formed by the union of the common hepatic duct and cystic...
Cholangiocarcinoma, also known as bileduct cancer, is a type of cancer that forms in the bileducts. Symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma may include abdominal...
common hepatic duct is the first part of the biliary tract. It joins the cystic duct coming from the gallbladder to form the common bileduct. The common...
and common hepatic duct forms the bileduct (formerly known as the common bileduct). Its length varies. The cystic duct typically measures (sources differ)...
gallstones within bileducts. Most people with gallstones (about 80%) are asymptomatic. However, when a gallstone obstructs the bileduct and causes acute...
of bileduct narrowing. The most common cause of bileduct obstruction is when gallstone(s) are dislodged from the gallbladder into the cystic duct or...
gallbladder and bileducts, and how they work together to make, store and secrete bile. Bile consists of water, electrolytes, bile acids, cholesterol...
in the duct system that can occur from a gallstone or malignancy, and metabolic type of cholestasis, in which there are disturbances in bile formation...
It receives bile, produced by the liver, via the common hepatic duct, and stores it. The bile is then released via the common bileduct into the duodenum...
known as acute cholangitis or simply cholangitis, is inflammation of the bileduct, usually caused by bacteria ascending from its junction with the duodenum...
with dilated bileducts on ultrasonography Indeterminate biliary strictures and suspected bileduct tumors Suspected injury to bileducts either as a result...
cholecystectomy include bileduct injury, wound infection, bleeding, retained gallstones, abscess formation and stenosis (narrowing) of the bileduct. Pain and complications...
ampulla or hepatopancreatic duct is the common duct that is usually formed by a union of the common bileduct and the pancreatic duct within the wall of the...
bileduct stones, or inflammation of the common bileduct. More than 90% of the time acute cholecystitis is caused from blockage of the cystic duct by...
Intrahepatic bileducts compose the outflow system of exocrine bile product from the liver. They can be divided into: Lobar ducts (right and left hepatic ducts) -...
Bileduct hamartoma or biliary hamartoma, are benign lesions of the intrahepatic bileduct. They are classically associated with polycystic liver disease...
An accessory bileduct is a conduit that transports bile and is considered to be supernumerary or auxiliary to the biliary tree. It may be described by...
gallbladder contract, so that it can discharge its bile into the bileduct. The gallbladder needs to store bile in a natural, semi-liquid form at all times....
the bileducts. They are cuboidal epithelium in the small interlobular bileducts, but become columnar and mucus secreting in larger bileducts approaching...
gallbladder characterized by inflammation and scarring of the bileducts, which normally allow bile to drain from the gallbladder. Affected individuals may...
as cirrhosis or hepatitis, infections, medications, or blockage of the bileduct, due to factors including gallstones, cancer, or pancreatitis. Other conditions...
the common bileduct and pancreatic duct drain. The major duodenal papilla is, in most people, the primary mechanism for the secretion of bile and other...
results from a slow, progressive destruction of the small bileducts of the liver, causing bile and other toxins to build up in the liver, a condition called...
second portions of the duodenum, the head of the pancreas, the common bileduct, and the gallbladder. Lymph nodes in the area are often removed during...
of acute pancreatitis are a gallstone blocking the common bileduct after the pancreatic duct has joined; and heavy alcohol use. Other causes include direct...
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