Open AccessA Clinical and Anatomical Study of Anomalous Terminations of the Common Bile Duct Into the Duodenum
Author(s) -
H Lindner,
Van A. Peña,
Robert A. Ruggeri
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-197611000-00017
Subject(s) - major duodenal papilla , medicine , duodenum , common bile duct , bile duct , general surgery , duct (anatomy) , radiology , gastroenterology , anatomy
Termination of the common bile duct into the duodenum was studied in 1000 patients by operative cholangiograms obtained from 5 different San Francisco Bay Area hospitals. The results indicate the strong probability that the duodenal biliary papilla is anomalously placed in at least 13% of the 1000 patients studied. Comments relative to the importance of this fact to surgeons and radiologists are made, and suggestion of a possible causative factor for the anomalies is proposed.