Post cholecystectomy common bile duct dilatation and associated symptomatology

Common bile duct stones associated with pancreatobiliary reflux and disproportionate bile duct dilatation

Occult pancreatobiliary reflux (PBR) in patients with a normal pancreatobiliary junction has been studied by various methods, but the exact etiology, mechanisms, and implications of this reflux have not yet been clarified. The aim of this study was to investigate the degree of PBR and patterns of biliary ductal dilatation in patients with acute calculous cholangitis by endoscopic retrograde cho...

Common bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Bile duct injury can occur more frequently during laparoscopic cholecystectomy than in open cholecystectomy. Three cases of common bile or hepatic duct injuries occurred in a series of eighty laparoscopic cholecystectomies; In case 1, the common bile duct was misidentified as the cystic duct. In case 2, bile peritonitis occurred on the fourth postoperative day caused by necrosis of the common h...

Transient increase in the common bile duct diameter after laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy

Introduction: Increase in the common bile duct diameter after cholecystectomy has been reported in animal model. However, similar studies in the human resulted in controversy. Methods: Between 2008 and 2012, fifty two patients with clinical as well as radiological signs and symptoms of gallbladder disease were enrolled in this study. The patients underwent laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy ...

Common bile duct dilatation after cholecystectomy: a one-year prospective study

PURPOSE Bile duct dilatation after cholecystectomy continues to be a matter of controversy. We aimed determine the magnitude of common bile duct (CBD) dilatation after cholecystectomy followed up to 1 year. METHODS Sixty-four cases (age, 47.3 ± 11.7 years; men, 28; women, 36) enrolled in this study. They received laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Chungbuk National University Hospital for sympto...

Dilatation of the common bile duct and gallstone formation.