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General Surgery

Perspective on Biliary Diseases (A)

Built from Maingot's Abdominal Operations

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7 sections · 63 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Scope of this perspective
    • Anatomy of the gallbladder and bile ducts

    2 slides

  2. 02

    Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and bile duct injury

    Where keyhole surgery helped, and where it did not

    • Uptake of laparoscopic gallbladder removal
    • Benefits of the laparoscopic approach
    • 0.4–1.3%
    • Consequences of a bile duct injury
    • Operative views during laparoscopic cholecystectomy
    • Learning curve and injury risk
    • Anatomic variability of the biliary tree
    • Methods used to reduce bile duct injury
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    • Staying in the plane on the gallbladder wall
    • Indications for converting to an open operation
    • Patterns of bile duct injury
    • Isolated right posterior duct injury
    • Steps to identify an isolated duct injury
    • Contrast study through a percutaneous drain

    15 slides

  3. 03

    Stones in the common bile duct

    Choosing between the endoscope, the surgeon and the scanner

    • Choledocholithiasis and how it is usually handled
    • Bile duct and pancreatic duct entering the duodenum
    • Route the endoscope takes at ERCP
    • 90–95%
    • Endoscopic tools for extracting and breaking stones
    • Endoscopic view of a stent at the duodenal papilla
    • Noninvasive tests used before ERCP
    • MRCP of stones in the gallbladder and bile duct
    • ERCP cholangiogram of the bile duct
    • Remaining role of ERCP and intraoperative cholangiography
    • Choosing the first test for a suspected duct stone
    • Stones found after the gallbladder has been removed
    • Drainage operations for recurrent duct stones
    • Intrahepatic stones and strictures

    14 slides

  4. 04

    Choledochal cysts

    Cystic widening of the bile duct, and its link with cancer

    • Choledochal cysts and their types
    • Patterns of cystic widening of the bile duct
    • Management of type I and type IV cysts
    • Management of type II and type III cysts
    • Caroli's disease confined to one lobe
    • Tests for cancer arising in a choledochal cyst
    • Choledochal cyst types and their treatment

    7 slides

  5. 05

    Bile leaks after cholecystectomy

    Finding the source, draining it, and timing the repair

    • Bile leak and biloma
    • HIDA scan in a suspected bile leak
    • HIDA result and the next investigation
    • Injecting the subhepatic drain
    • Timing of repair after drainage
    • Transhepatic catheter and cholangiogram schedule
    • Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis
    • Drainage versus resection in recurrent pyogenic cholangitis

    8 slides

  6. 06

    Gallbladder cancer and cholangiocarcinoma

    Staging, incidental tumours and the limits of imaging

    • Staging changes in gallbladder carcinoma
    • Lymph node groups in gallbladder carcinoma
    • Incidentally found gallbladder carcinoma
    • Resected liver containing a tumour where the ducts meet
    • CA19-9 as a marker in bile duct cancer
    • Imaging limits in cholangiocarcinoma
    • Percutaneous catheters before hilar resection
    • Cholangiogram with a percutaneous catheter in place

    8 slides

  7. 07

    Laparoscopic biliary procedures

    What the keyhole route is worth today

    • Routine versus selective intraoperative cholangiography
    • Indications for a selective cholangiogram
    • Training and gains from advanced laparoscopic biliary work
    • Key points on preventing and finding injury
    • Key points on stones, cysts and cancer
    • References
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12th Edition

    9 slides