[Case of isolated surgical lesion of the right hepatic duct]

A case of isolated surgical wound of the right hepatic duct is presented. Some considerations regarding all the pathogenetic, diagnostic and therapeutic problems are made. It is felt that, in this instance, surgical management was facilitated by the unusual length of the right hepatic duct, which terminated in the infundibulum of the gall bladder, due to a prior anatomical abnormality.