Common Bile Duct - Injuries
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Management of common bile duct injury during partial gastrectomy.

30 Jul 2009 Injury to the common bile duct (CBD) during upper gastrointestinal surgery for peptic ulcer disease is a serious complication with an underestimated prevalence in light of the few cases reported in the surgical literature. Three cases of CBD injury ... Read more...

Is damage to the common bile duct during laparoscopic cholecystectomy an inherent risk of the operation?

30 May 2009 Laparoscopic cholocystectomy has been practiced for close to 20 years. The rate of common duct injury remains somewhere between 0.4 to 0.7 percent and is approximately the same around the world. Recent papers have stressed ways in which laparoscopic ... Read more...

[How safe is laparoscopic cholecystectomy?]

18 Apr 2009 INTRODUCTION: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LCE) is the standard treatment for symptomatic non-complicated cholecystolithiasis. However, there is still an ongoing debate about the appropriate surgical approach in cases with complicated ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Common Bile Duct - Injuries'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Management of common bile duct injury during partial gastrectomy. 30 Jul 2009
• Is damage to the common bile duct during laparoscopic cholecystectomy an inherent risk of the operation? 30 May 2009
• Cost-effective strategy for risk reduction in common bile duct injury. 30 May 2009
• [How safe is laparoscopic cholecystectomy?] 18 Apr 2009
• Liver transplantation for iatrogenic porta hepatis transection. 30 Mar 2009
• New technologies, more complex procedures, and a host of external constraints have changed where and how surgical skills are taught. 30 Mar 2009
• An experience of treatment of postoperative biliary stricture at a single Japanese institute. 30 Dec 2008
• Surgeon knowledge, behavior, and opinions regarding intraoperative cholangiography. 30 Sep 2008
• Operative strategy can reduce the incidence of major bile duct injury in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. 29 Sep 2008
• Female gender may give rise to difficulties in endoscopic and laparoscopic biliary surgery. 19 Sep 2008
• Traumatic neuroma of the bile duct. 30 Aug 2008
• Iatrogenic biliary injuries during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A continuing threat. 5 Aug 2008
• Biliary injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with right liver agenesis: case report and review of the literature. 10 Jul 2008
• Common sense and common bile duct injury: common bile duct injury revisited. 30 Jun 2008
• Error traps and vasculo-biliary injury in laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy. 4 Jun 2008
• Radiological reasoning: postoperative hemorrhage after open cholecystectomy and common bile duct exploration. 30 May 2008
• Traumatic biliary stricture. 10 May 2008
• Retroperitoneal perforation caused by precut biliary access in a Billroth II gastrectomy. 18 Mar 2008
• Evaluation of real-time infrared intraoperative cholangiography in a porcine model. 16 Mar 2008
• Limits and advantages of fundus-first laparoscopic cholecystectomy: lessons learned. 30 Jan 2008

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Technical information about 'Common Bile Duct'

Definition: The largest bile duct. It is formed by the junction of the CYSTIC DUCT and the COMMON HEPATIC DUCT.

Descriptor UI: D003135

Alternative terms: Common Bile Duct; Bile Duct, Common; Common Bile Ducts; Duct, Common Bile; Choledochus;

Related Mesh Headings: Choledochostomy;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; injuries; innervation; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; transplantation; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: A03.159.183.079.300;

Technical Notes: inflammation = CHOLANGITIS + COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; calculi = COMMON BILE DUCT CALCULI see GALLSTONES but consider also CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS