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{{Short description|Exocrine duct}}
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{{Infobox anatomy
| Name = Common hepatic duct
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== Structure ==
The common hepatic duct is the first part of the
The duct is about 3 cm long.'''<ref name=":0222">{{Cite book |last=Sinnatamby |first=Chummy S. |title=Last's Anatomy |publisher= |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7295-3752-0 |edition=12th |pages=265}}</ref>''' The common hepatic duct is about 6 mm in diameter in adults, with some variation.<ref name="gray">Gray's Anatomy, 39th ed, p. 1228</ref>
=== Termination ===
The common hepatic duct typically unites with the cystic duct some 1–2 cm superior to the duodenum and anterior to the right hepatic artery, with the cystic duct approaching the common hepatic duct from the right.'''<ref name=":0222" />'''
=== Relations ===
The right branch of the [[hepatic artery proper]] usually passes posterior to the duct, but may rarely pass anterior to it instead.'''<ref name=":0222" />'''
=== Histology ===
The inner surface is covered in a [[simple columnar epithelium]].<ref name=":1" />
=== Variation ===
'''Accessory hepatic ducts'''
Around 1.7% of people have additional accessory hepatic ducts that join onto the common hepatic duct.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Portmann|first=Bernard C.|title=3 - Developmental abnormalities and liver disease in childhood|date=2012-01-01|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780702033988000039|work=MacSween's Pathology of the Liver (Sixth Edition)|pages=101–156|editor-last=Burt|editor-first=Alastair D.|place=Edinburgh|publisher=Churchill Livingstone|language=en|isbn=978-0-7020-3398-8|access-date=2021-01-26|last2=Roberts|first2=Eve A.|editor2-last=Portmann|editor2-first=Bernard C.|editor3-last=Ferrell|editor3-first=Linda D.}}</ref>▼
▲Around 1.7%<ref name=":0" /> of people have additional accessory hepatic ducts that
'''Termination'''
Occasionally, the cystic duct may first run along the right side of the common bile duct for some distance before joining it, or may pass posteriorly around to the common hepatic duct to unite with it from the left side.'''<ref name=":0222" />'''
Rarely, the common hepatic duct
== Function ==
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The common hepatic ducts carries a higher volume of bile in people who have had their gallbladder removed.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
The common hepatic duct is an important anatomic landmark during surgeries such as [[cholecystectomy]]. It forms one edge of [[Cystohepatic triangle|Calot's triangle]], along with the
=== Cholestasis ===
A diameter of more than 8 mm is regarded as abnormal dilatation, and is a sign of [[cholestasis]].<ref name="HoeffelAzizi2006">{{cite journal|last1=Hoeffel|first1=Christine|last2=Azizi|first2=Louisa|last3=Lewin|first3=Maité|last4=Laurent|first4=Valérie|last5=Aubé|first5=Christophe|last6=Arrivé|first6=Lionel|last7=Tubiana|first7=Jean-Michel|title=Normal and Pathologic Features of the Postoperative Biliary Tract at 3D MR Cholangiopancreatography and MR Imaging|journal=RadioGraphics|volume=26|issue=6|year=2006|pages=1603–1620|issn=0271-5333|doi=10.1148/rg.266055730|doi-access=
=== Mirizzi's syndrome ===
[[Mirizzi's syndrome]] occurs when the common hepatic duct is blocked by [[
==Additional images==
{{Cleanup-gallery anatomy|date=May 2015}}
<gallery>
File:Biliary system new.svg |Biliary tract▼
File:Abdominal cavity.jpg|Common hepatic duct
File:Bilebladder.png|The portal vein and its tributaries.▼
File:Gray1095-gall bladder.png|The gall-bladder and bile ducts laid open.▼
▲File:Biliary system new.svg
File:Slide13ffff.JPG|Common hepatic duct
</gallery>
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==External links==
* {{SUNYAnatomyLabs|38|03|03|02}} - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: Contents of the Hepatoduodenal Ligament"
* [http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26032 Illustration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020150714/http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26032 |date=2012-10-20 }}
{{Digestive glands}}
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