Junction of the cystic duct with the left hepatic duct: Report of a case discovered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 445-447

  Fujita, Nobuhiro ^a   Shirai, Yoshio ^a   Ohtani, Tetsuya ^a   Tsukada, Kazuhiro ^a   Hirota, Masaki ^b   Hatakeyama, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Niigata Prefectural   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bile duct anomaly; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Left sided gallbladder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CYSTIC DUCT; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BILE DUCT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; CYSTIC DUCT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0029803195     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199612000-00006     Document Type: Article

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