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HPB Surgery
Volume 1 (1989), Issue 4, Pages 353-358
doi:10.1155/1989/49560
Case Report

A Rare Extrahepatic Biliary Anomaly

Alfateh University, P.O Box 3704, Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Received 16 June 1988; Accepted 30 November 1988

Copyright © 1989 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

In a case operated on for calculous jaundice the right and left hepatic ducts drained directly into the gallbladder and the cystic duct was the only route by which hepatic bile reached the duodenum. Exploration of the inside of the gallbladder was a crucial step for the discovery of the anomaly. Continuity of bile drainage was secured by the preservation of a portion of the gallbladder which contained hepatic and cystic ducts.