A case of double common bile duct in a deceased donor for transplantation
Hajime Imamura1,2, Susumu Eguchi1, A M James Shapiro2
1Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Abstract:
A double common bile duct is extremely rare among the anatomical variations in the biliary tract system. We report an incidentally encountered case of the double common bile duct and discuss the novel anatomical findings of the accessory common bile duct from the viewpoint of embryology. A unique point of our case is that the accessory common bile duct bifurcated at the level of the intrapancreatic bile duct. There is no similar case in the previous literature among type II double common bile duct in the viewpoint of anatomical findings of the accessory common bile duct. We assume that this asymptomatic anatomical variation may be present more commonly, but not diagnosed.
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