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1. Bile ducts:
      2. Intrahepatic bile ducts
      3. Left and right hepatic ducts
      4. Common hepatic duct
      5. Cystic duct
      6. Common bile duct
      7. Ampulla of Vater
      8. Major duodenal papilla
9. Gallbladder
10–11. Right and left lobes of liver
12. Spleen
13. Esophagus
14. Stomach
15. Pancreas:
      16. Accessory pancreatic duct
      17. Pancreatic duct
18. Small intestine:
      19. Duodenum
      20. Jejunum
21–22. Right and left kidneys
The front border of the liver has been lifted up (brown arrow).[1]

Intrahepatic bile ducts compose the outflow system of exocrine bile product from the liver.

They can be divided into:[2]

Abdominal ultrasonography (with Doppler) of dilated intrahepatic bile ducts, in this case because of pancreatic cancer. The bile ducts are colorless (black) in contrast to blood vessels (portal vein near center, and hepatic artery to the right of it) which have Doppler signal.

References

  1. ^ Standring S, Borley NR, eds. (2008). Gray's anatomy : the anatomical basis of clinical practice. Brown JL, Moore LA (40th ed.). London: Churchill Livingstone. pp. 1163, 1177, 1185–6. ISBN 978-0-8089-2371-8.
  2. ^ Roderick N. M. MacSween; Alastair D. Burt; Bernard Portmann; Linda D. Ferrell (2007). MacSween's pathology of the liver. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-443-10012-3.


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