TWO CASES OF ANOMALOUS CONNECTION OF PANCREATICOBILIARY DUCTS WITHOUT CHOLEDOCHAL CYSTS IN THE BILE DUCTS

Dilated common bile ducts mimicking choledochal cysts in ketamine abusers.

Substance abuse is a major health and social problem among Hong Kong youth and ketamine is the drug most commonly abused. Ketamine abuse is associated with a series of side-effects that include hallucination, nausea, vomiting, elevation of blood pressure, and urinary bladder dysfunction. Here we report three cases of ketamine abuse in which the abusers presented with recurrent epigastric pain a...

Intrahepatic Transposition of Bile Ducts

Objective. To describe the intrahepatic bile duct transposition (anatomical variation occurring in intrahepatic ducts) and to determine the frequency of this variation. Material and Methods. The researches were performed randomly on 100 livers of adults, both sexes. Main research methods were anatomical macrodissection. As a criterion for determination of variations in some parts of bile tree, ...

Fusion variations of pancreatic ducts in patients with anomalous arrangement of pancreaticobiliary ductal system.

Fusion variations of the pancreatic ducts were studied to elucidate the significance of such variations. We classified structural fusion anomalies of the main and accessory pancreatic ducts on endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) in 37 patients with anomalous arrangement of the pancreaticobiliary ductal system (AAPB). The fusion variations of the pancreatic ducts were classifi...

Congenital atresia of the bile ducts.

Diseases of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts

Part I, describing anatomy, physiology and pathology, is both important and interesting because a concise and authoritative style has been adopted in place of the more usual stereotyped description bolstered up by theoretical discussions. Diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts occupy the next two parts of the book, and the fourth is taken up with treatment. It is perhaps significant that th...