title: Compression of the common hepatic duct by the right hepatic artery.
abstract: Magnetic resonance (MR) cholangiography has been used wildly as preoperative examination before laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LSC). However, cases that suggested the stenotic lesion of extrahepatic bile duct are not so rare in MR cholangiography. When stenosis is found, further examination is needed to avoid the possibility of bile duct cancer. We reported a case in which the stenotic lesion was diagnosed compression of the common hepatic duct by the right hepatic artery by multislice CT (MCT) cholangiography.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University 1750-1, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan. izuishi@kms.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kunihiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Izuishi
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Toyama
authors.forename: Hisao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wakabayashi
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Usuki
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maeta
mesh_terms: D001649:Bile Duct Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D049448:Cholangiopancreatography, Magnetic Resonance; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006500:Hepatic Duct, Common / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011300:Preoperative Care