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Structure of left hepatic duct

Known as: Left Hepatic Duct, Left main liver duct, Dotto epatico principale sinistro 
The duct that drains bile from the left lobe of the liver into the common hepatic duct.
National Institutes of Health

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15 relations

Broader (2)

Bile Ducts, ExtrahepaticHepatic Duct
Biliary FistulaBiliary calculiBiliary tract obstructionBiliary tract structure

Narrower (1)

Liver ducts, left intrahepatic branches

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
“Anatomic” Right Hepatic Trisectionectomy (Extended Right Hepatectomy) With Caudate Lobectomy for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma
Background:The techniques of right hepatic trisectionectomy are now standardized in patients with hepatocellular or metastatic… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Types and frequencies of biliary tract variations associated with a major portal venous anomaly: analysis with multi-detector row CT cholangiography.
PURPOSE To retrospectively determine whether major portal venous variation was more frequently associated with biliary variants… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Anatomy of the hepatic hilar area: the plate system.
To surgically manage hilar bile duct carcinoma successfully, it is important to be familiar with the principal anatomical… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
A new splitting technique for liver grafts
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Blood supply of the right and left hepatic ducts
Increasing precision of liver resection and use of reduced liver grafts stimulated this study of the blood supply of the… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
"Natural history" of unresected cholangiocarcinoma: patient outcome after noncurative intervention.
OBJECTIVE To clarify the "natural history" of unresected cholangiocarcinoma. DESIGN We reviewed the outcome in 103 patients… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
The paracaval segments of the liver
Two segments constitute thedorsal sector: I to the left and in front of the inferior vena cava, and IX in front and to the right… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Pseudosclerosing cholangitis in extrahepatic portal venous obstruction.
Biliary changes secondary to portal hypertension have rarely been described in published reports. Twenty consecutive patients… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
A comparison of right versus left hepatic duct endoprosthesis insertion in malignant hilar biliary obstruction.
Endoscopic endoprosthesis insertion plays an increasingly important role in the palliation of jaundice in patients with… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
[Approach to and use of the left hepatic duct in reparation of the common bile duct].
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