title: Where to incise and/or divide the cystic duct.
abstract: The study concern was to establish the position of cystic duct incision/division in circumstances of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Seventy consecutive human cadavers were dissected. Corrosion casting (50) and post-mortem cholangiography (20) were employed. Cystic duct length was 34.6 mm, and in 88.6% cases its length was 1-5 cm. Mean cystic duct diameters next to the gallbladder neck, within the valve and 5 mm proximal to the junction with the common hepatic duct were 1.95, 0.42 and 1.85 mm, respectively. Lateral cysto-hepatic junction was identified in 78.6%, spiral in 10% and parallel in 10%. In 90% cases the cysto-hepatic junction is within 4 cm of the hepatic duct junction. One case (1.43%) of cystic duct entering the right hepatic duct was identified. The valve of Heisteri consisted of three spiral turns in 73% of the cases with a range from 0 to 5. In 3/70 specimens the spiral valve did not exist.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, KBC Dr Dragisa Misović University Hospital, Belgrade.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ignjatović
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Djurić
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zivanović
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000379:methods*; D003549:Cystic Duct / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged