Anatomy study note · Abdomen
Biliary tree
The ducts that carry bile from the liver to the duodenum: right and left hepatic ducts, common hepatic duct, cystic duct, gallbladder and bile duct. Bile is secreted continuously at about 40 mL per hour.
Key points
- R + L hepatic → common hepatic + cystic → bile duct.
- Bile duct: lesser omentum → behind D1 → behind the pancreatic head → D2.
- Ampulla of Vater + sphincter of Oddi at the major papilla.
- Pancreatic head cancer → obstructive jaundice.
- Bile duct: stem of the hepatic bud.
- Bile ducts: cuboidal cholangiocytes.
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Written from
- Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 7, PDF pp. 906–909, 912–913, 924
- Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 14, PDF pp. 198, 204–205
- BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 17, PDF pp. 313, 315–316
More from the abdomen
- Caecum
- Coeliac trunk
- Descending colon
- Duodenum
- Epididymis
- External oblique
- Gallbladder
- Iliac arteries
- Iliacus
- Iliohypogastric and ilioinguinal nerves
- Inferior epigastric vessels
- Inferior mesenteric artery
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