A new variation of duplicated extrahepatic bile duct encountered intraoperatively on cholangiogram
Abstract A potentially devastating complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) includes iatrogenic bile duct injury, the incidence of which has remained stable at 0.3% over the past three decades. Although there are several relative risks such as surgeon experience and patient factors (male sex, obesity, older age), misinterpretation of biliary tree anatomy contributes towards 80% of iatrogenic common bile duct (CBD) injuries. Although extremely rare, an isolated duplicated common hepatic duct anomaly with a normal CBD remains a potential variation to
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