The right hepatic duct is located within the liver’s biliary network. Together, the right and left hepatic ducts form the common hepatic duct. The right hepatic duct drains bile from the liver’s ...

Your body’s biliary system encompasses your bile ducts, gallbladder, and the associated digestive structures. This system works together to move bile, also called digestive fluid, through your system ...

The liver hilum, which some people know as the porta hepatis or hilum of the liver, is a fissure or opening between two sections, or lobes, of the liver. The liver hilum allows structures including ...

Research from the Gupta Lab provides important insights into the extrahepatic bile ducts. These bile ducts outside of the liver are a critical but poorly understood component of the human digestive ...

Chemotherapy and radiation wouldn't work. Surgery to remove the tumor was out of the question, too. So, Gehle was selected to try something new that could cure him. "I have two choices: I can die, or ...

A biliary stent is a small tube that a doctor inserts into the liver to allow bile to drain typically and relieve symptoms of a blocked bile duct. A blocked bile duct may occur with liver cancer and ...