Biliary Tree Flashcards
What ducts join to form the common hepatic duct?
Right and left hepatic ducts
What two thing join to form the common bile duct?
Cystic duct (of gallbladder) Common hepatic duct
What is the triangle between the cystic duct, common hepatic duct, and liver known as?
Callot’s triangle
Callot’s triangle contains what artery?
Cystic artery
The common bile duct travels along the free edge of what?
The lesser omentum
The common bile duct travels along the free edge of the lesser omentum with what other structures?
Proper hepatic artery
Portal vein
What passes through the head of the pancreas?
Common bile duct
What two ducts join and drain into the second part of the duodenum?
Common bile duct and
Main pancreatic duct
The opening in the duodenum is guarded by the smooth muscle of?
Sphincter of Oddi
The gallbladder contains how much bile?
50cc
The gallbladder lies just below what?
The liver
The gallbladder lies in a fossa in the liver between what two lobes?
The right and quadrate
The gallbladder has what parts?
Funds
Body
Neck
Cystic duct
The cystic duct has what?
Spiral valve (of Heister)
