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SUMMARY: Adverse events (AE) contribute significantly to postoperative morbidities and comorbidities. Many AEs occur due to a lack of anatomical knowledge and its variants. Latrogenic bile duct injuries, for instance, represent a serious surgical complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Anatomical knowledge for the identification and adequate drainage of all ducts is relevant and fundamental in order to avoid future errors. The objective of the study was to morphometrically analyze the bile ducts in adult human corpses. 13 livers were extracted from adult human corpses to obtain the ducts: choledochal, common hepatic and cystic. After morphological analysis, duct measurements (length and diameter) were continued using a digital caliper. The data obtained were tabulated in SPSS 21 program, performing descriptive analysis with mean and standard deviation. The averages of bile ducts were 61.05 (± 16.43) mm in length and 3.86 (± 0.72) mm in diameter. The cystic duct length and diameter averages were 33.59 (± 12.29) mm and 3.40 (± 0.79) mm, respectively. The common hepatic ducts had an average of 30.02 (± 7.19) mm in length and 3.74 (± 1.18) mm in diameter. The analyzed samples presented different values ?? from those already described in the literature, where the length of the cystic ducts was greater, while the length of the common hepatic ducts was numerically smaller. This work is very significant, as the morphometric variability of the bile ducts allows for varying morphological situations that can compromise the hepatobiliar physiology.
RESUMEN: Los eventos adversos (EA) contribuyen significativamente a las morbilidades y comorbilidades postoperatorias. Muchos EA se deben a la falta de conocimiento de la anatomía y sus variaciones. Por ejemplo, las lesiones iatrogénicas de las vías biliares representan una complicación quirúrgica grave de la colecistectomía laparoscópica. El conocimiento anatómico para la identificación y drenaje adecuado de todos los conductos es relevante y fundamental para evitar futuros errores. El objetivo del estudio fue analizar morfométricamente las vías biliares en cadáveres humanos adultos. Se extrajeron 13 hígados de cadáveres humanos adultos y se retiraron los conductos: colédoco, hepático común y cístico. Después del análisis morfológico, se continuó con las mediciones de los conductos (longitud y diámetro) utilizando un calibrador digital. Los datos fueron tabulados en el programa SPSS 21, mediante análisis descriptivos con media y desviación estándar. Los promedios de las vías biliares fueron de 61,05 (± 16,43) mm de longitud y 3,86 (± 0,72) mm de diámetro. Los promedios de longitud y diámetro del conducto cístico fueron 33,59 (± 12,29) mm y 3,40 (± 0,79) mm, respectivamente. Los conductos hepáticos comunes tenían un promedio de 30,02 (± 7,19) mm de longitud y 3,74 (± 1,18) mm de diámetro. Las muestras analizadas presentaron valores diferentes a los ya descritos en la literatura, donde la longitud de los conductos císticos era mayor, mientras que la longitud de los conductos hepáticos comunes fue numéricamente menor. Este trabajo es significativo, debido a que la variabilidad morfométrica de las vías biliares y permite identificar situaciones morfológicas que pueden comprometer la fisiología hapatobiliar.
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Humans , Male , Female , Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic/anatomy & histology , Bile Ducts/anatomy & histology , Cadaver , Cystic Duct , Anatomic VariationABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of transhepatic hilar approach exposing porta hepatis for the treatment of gallbladder carcinoma invading porta hepatis. METHODS: The clinicopathological data of patients with gallbladder carcinoma invading porta hepatis who underwent surgical treatment at Department of General Surgery and Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from January 2007 to December 2017 was collected. There were 39 patients enrolled in the study, including 19 patients in the conventional surgical approach group and 20 patients in the transhepatic hilar approach group. The R0 resection, intraoperative bleeding, postoperative complications and overall survival time were compared between the conventional approach group and the transhepatic hilar approach group. RESULTS: CT and/or MRI were used for preoperative evaluation in the conventional approach group, and CT + MRI + 3 D reconstruction were used in the transhepatic hilar approach group.The accuracy rate of preoperative resectable evaluation was 57.9%(11/19) in the conventional approach group, and 90.0%(18/20) in the transhepatic hilar approach group(P=0.031). The R0 resection rate of the conventional approach group was 26.3%(5/19), while the R0 resection rate of transhepatic hilar approach group was 85.0%(17/20)(P=0.000). The operations of the conventional approach group and the transhepatic hilar approach group were shown as follow: S4 b,5 + extrahepatic bile duct (7/8), S4 b,5,6,7,8 + extrahepatic bile duct (3/6), S4 a,4 b,5,6,7,8 +extrahepatic bile duct (0/1), extended resection(1/3) and others (8/2)(P= 0.156). The number of death within 30 days after surgery in the conventional approach group and the transhepatic hilar approach group was 4 and 0 respectively (P=0.047). Among the hepatectomy patients, the blood loss in the conventional approach group was significantly higher than that in the transhepatic hilar approach group [(660 ± 219.1)mL vs.(358.8 ± 184.8)m L,P=0.006]. The postoperative complication rate of Clavien Ⅲ to Clavien Ⅴwas significantly higher in the conventional approach group [Clavien Ⅲ was72.7% vs. 27.8% (P=0.027), Clavien Ⅳ was 45.5% vs. 0 (P=0.004), and Clavien Ⅴ was 27.3% vs. 0(P=0.045)]. The 1-year survival rate of the conventional approach group and the transhepatic hilar approach group was 21.1%(4/19) and61.1%(11/18)(P=0.020), respectively. The overall survival time of the transhepatic hilar approach group was significantly better than that of the conventional approach group(16.0 months vs. 8.4 months, P=0.0005). CONCLUSION: The transhepatic hilar approach can improve the R0 resection rate, reduce intraoperative blood loss, perioperative mortality and serious complication rate, and improve the overall survival time. CT+MRI+3 D reconstruction can improve the accuracy of preoperative resectable evaluation and reduce unnecessary surgical exploration.
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Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma invading hepatic hilum has the biological characteristics and clinical features of both gallbladder cancer and hilar cholangiocarcinoma, and it also combines the pathophysiological changes of liver disease.There are a series of therapeutic difficulties such as difficult exposure of three hepatic hilum, complexity of liver resection,difficult treatment of combined liver diseases and insensitivity to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which result in low radical resection rate, difficulty in operation, high operative risk and poor prognosis. The perihilar surgical technique system based on special clinical features, surgical methods and pathophysiological characteristics, evaluates the tumor resectability, the anatomy structure of three hepatic hilum and the reserved liver function comprehensively and accurately before surgery, completely exposes hepatic hilum via combining anterograde and retrograde route from extra and intra-hepatic direction to hepatic hilum, combined with accurate liver resection, accurate and high-quality biliary anastomosis and management of postoperative complication,which can improve surgical radicalization and safety, reduce surgical risk and postoperative complication rate, thereby improve the overall survival time of patients.
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Gallbladder cancer invading hepatic hilum has both the biological characteristics of gallbladder cancer and the clinical features of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. There are a series of therapeutic difficulties such as difficult exposure of hepatic hilum, multiple organ resection, resection and reconstruction of hilar vessels, complex cholangiojejunostomy and liver functional restriction, which result in low radical resection rate, difficulty in operation, high operative risk, more postoperative complications and perioperative mortality. The perihiliar surgical technique system adopts accurate preoperative three-dimensional imaging evaluation and liver function evaluation, and completely exposes hepatic hilum via combining anterograde and retrograde route from extra and intra-hepatic direction to hepatic hilum, which is beneficial to intraoperative re-evaluation. It can improve the R0 resection rate, quality of vascular resection and reconstruction, quality of cholangiojejunostomy, and reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality. Surgeons should pay attention to the combination of perihiliar surgical technique and oncology in order to screen which patients will benefit from operation.
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Perihilar biliary diseases have a wide spectrum of diseases including stones, inflammation, tumors, injuries and congenital malformations. Because of their characteristics such as anatomic variability, pathophysiological complexity, high operative difficulties, more postoperative complications and high operative risk, the perihilar biliary surgery is a high difficulty area in biliary surgery. For common clinical features ,common surgical methods and common technical difficulties of perihilar biliary diseases, the perihilar surgical technique system adequately evaluates hilar anatomy and its variations,liver function and volume of residual liver relying on threedimensional digital medical imaging technology, completely exposes hepatic hilum via combining anterograde and retrograde route from extra and intra-hepatic direction to hepatic hilum, then re-evaluates the relationship between the lesion and the hepatic artery and portal vein, and ultimately sets the surgical procedure . It is developed to improve the R0 resection rate, quality of cholangiojejunostomy, quality of vascular resection and reconstruction and safety of operation,eventually for the purpose of reducing postoperative complication rate and perioperative mortality and improving the prognosis. So surgeons should pay attention to the comprehensive system involving multiple disciplines in order to improve the effectiveness and safety in diagnosis and treatment of perihilar biliary diseases.
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Perihilar biliary tract tumours include hilar cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder cancer invading the hepatic hilum and intrahepatic cholangiocarcioma invading the hepatic hilum.The tumours have the special characteristics such as strong invasion capability, the anatomic variant, the pathophysiological complexity, the biological behavior diversity and the difficulty of preoperative evaluation which result in low R0 resection rate, more postoperative complications, more mortality and poor prognosis.The perihilar surgical techniques system aims to set a reasonable and individual operation procedure on the principle of precision surgery by taking the key technique of hilar dissection and exposing, evaluting the hilar anatomy by the means of three-dimensional digital medical image evaluation system, evaluting the relationship between the tumour and hepatic artery and portal vein under the condition of hepatic hilum complete exposure by combining anterograde and retrograde route from intra and extra-hepatic direction to hepatic hilum.The perihilar surgical techniques system is applied to improve the accuracy of resectable evaluation, the R0 radical resection rate, the safety of operation and the accuracy of cholangiojejunostomy through the accurate preoperative evaluation, the detailed operation plan, the accurate intraoperative reassessment, the perfect operative procedure and the excellent postoperative management, eventually for the purpose of reducing the postoperative complications rate and perioperative mortality and improving the prognosis of perihilar biliary tract tumours.
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The knowledge in detail of the anatomy of the hepatic pedicle is critical when operating it and its surroundings. The presence of anatomic variations is higher at the arterial component level than at the bile component level or venous component level, which in the 90% of the cases it appears as the classic description. The presented case in this work implies a very low frequency of appearance. For this reason, the surgeon must be alert at the moment of making a decision so as to avoid injuries that may put the patient´s life at risk.
El conocimiento en detalle de la anatomía del pedículo hepático es fundamental al momento de intervenir quirúrgicamente sobre el mismo y su vecindad. La presencia de variaciones anatómicas es mayor a nivel del componente arterial, luego biliar y finalmente venoso, el cual en el 90% de los casos se dispone de acuerdo con la descripción clásica. El caso presentado en este trabajo supone una muy baja frecuencia de aparición, siendo precisamente estas disposiciones poco habituales las que obligan al cirujano a mantenerse alerta en el momento de actuar para evitar injurias que puedan comprometer la vida del paciente.
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Humans , Male , Adult , Anatomic Variation , Liver/anatomy & histology , Portal Vein/anatomy & histology , Bile Ducts/anatomy & histology , Cadaver , Hepatic Artery/anatomy & histologyABSTRACT
Objective To discussion the efficacy and safety of single channel and double chinese -made biliary stent in high biliary malignant hilar obstructive jaundice .Methods We reviewed the clinical data of 24 malignant hilar obstructive jaundice patients treated with single channel and double chinese -made biliary stent from October 2012 to December 2013 retrospectively.Of which 9 cases(study group)were used for single channel and double stenttreatment,and 15 cases(control group)were treated by the bilateral channel;We compared the number of intraoperative percutaneous puncture hepatic duct , radiation exposure doses , operation time , drainage effectiveness and complication rates in the two groups .Results The average number of percutaneous puncture hepatic duct in the study group was 1.44 ±0.53 times,which was significantly lower than the control group (3.73 ±0.70 times).The fluoroscopy time and radiation exposure dose of study group was 1152.22 ±335.61 s and 653.22 ±207.02 mGy,which was slightly less than the control group (1236.93 ±463.43 s and 727.00 ±348.52 mGy),the difference was not statistically significant (P=0.638;P=0.572).Liver function was tested after 4 W, the drainage effectiveness of study group and the control group were 88.9%(eight-nineths),86.7%(thirteen-fifteenths),the difference was not statistically significant .One case occurred bile leakage in the study group ,2 pa-tients with hemobilia in control group ,both groups showed no serious complication .Conclusion The single chan-nel and double chinese -made biliary stent to treat high biliary malignant hilar obstructive jaundice is minimally injured and effective ,which can be selectively applied to treat patients with hepatic hilum malignant obstructive jaundice .
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Objective To summarize the experience of performing a variety of hepatectomies by occluding the branches of the hepatic artery (HA) and portal vein (PV) to the liver lobe, segment or subsegments in hilar H fissure for 344 patients in this hospital from 1987 to 2008. Methods (1) According to the size and location of the liver focus, major hepatectomy (66 cases), resection of separated hepatic subsegments (15 cases HS), resection of adjacent HS (216 cases) and resection of single HS (46 cases) were performed. (2) For left lateral HS, the left lateral inferior PV and left lateral superior PV originating from the lateral aspect of the left PV (LPV) were dissected, isolated and severed in umbilical fissure after the LHA was occluded. (3) For left medial HS, the left medial inferior PV and left medial superior PV originating from the medial aspect of the left PV were dissected、isolated and severed in umbilical fissure after the middle HA was occluded. (4) For right anterior HS, the right anterior PV was isolated and occluded in the anteior sulcus of the right longitudinal fissure (RLF) after the RHA behind the main hepatic duct was occluded. (5) For right posterior HS, the right posterior PV was isolated and occluded in the posterior sulcus of RLF after RHA was occluded.(6)The corresponding hepatic venous stem was protected as much as possible during the operation.Results (1) The operative mortality was 2.9% (10/344). Of these 10 patients, 8 died of liver failure and 2 bleeding. (2) Ten HCC patients (n=200) survived for 11～20 years, 4 for 7years, 19 for 5years and the 5-year survival rate was 18. 3% (33/180). For patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma (n= 14), only 3 survived for 13, 6, 4 years, respectively. The patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (n=13) survived for 1/2～3 years. Those with carcinoma of the gallbladder (n=12) survived for 1/2～1 year. All the patients with benign liver diseases (n=92) were cured. In 7 patients with intrahepatic lithiasis, the stones in other locations needed to be managed. Conclusion (1) Separated multiple hepatic subsegmentectctomy is an effective procedure to cure the compacted stones in 2～6 subsegmental hepatic ducts in both right and left lobes. (2) This procedure is reasonable, effective and of low cost for hepatectomy, worthy of being used because of the decrease in the ischemic liver mass and blood loss in operation, increase in the resectability of bulk liver cancer, alleviation of postoperative liver dysfunction and meeting the technical needs of a variety of hepatectomies for various liver diseases fulfilled by regional vascular occlusion at hepatic hilum instead of total hepatic afferent blood flow occlusion.
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It is important to reduce blood loss and protect the function of reserved liver during hepatectomy.Selective hepatic vascular occlusion can keep the blood supply of reserved liver and make blood loss less than other methods of blood occlusion, so it helps more to the recovery of liver function.In summary, promotion and application of this technology is worth while.This article reviews the developing progress and the latest studies of selective hepatic blood occlusion to introduce the latest advancement in this area.
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Objective To study the experience on a variety of hepatectomy by occluding the branches of hepatic artery and portal vein to the liver lobe,segment at hilar H fissure.Methods A total of three hun-dred and ninteen patients accepted hepatectomy in Hunan provincial people's hospital from Decemember 2006 to Decemember 2007 were involved in this study for retrospective analysis.Results There were no perioperative deaths and liver function failure in this series of patients.The average amount of blood loss was 70 15ml,and 302 (95 %)cases did not receive transfusion.Postoperative complications such as liver necro-sis,bile leaking,bleeding were not found.Subphrenic abscesses were found in 3 cases,which were cured conservatively.Conclusion Selective regional occlusion of hepatic blood flow during bepatectomy avoided the risk of ischemia-reflow injury of remnant liver,which is safe and effective to prevent massive bleeding and to reduce the incidence of liver failure.
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0.05).The accuracy of preoperative evaluation in all patients of hepatic hilum cholangiocarcinoma was 81%(17/21).Conclusion:MRI is a valid method in the diagnosis of hilar cholangiocarcinoma and its preoperative evaluation.
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The incidence ot bile duct cancer at hepatic hilum has a tendency to increase in recent years. This paper is to report 60 cases during a 10-year-period from 1975 to -1985. The cancer at the hepatic hilum (60 cases) made up 73% of all extrahepatic bile duct cancers(82 cases),and accounted for 1.65% of 3626 biliary operations done at the same period. The clinical manifestations of the patients could be categorized into three types, the presenting symptoms were obstructive jaundice in 29 cases, of which 25 had been misdiagnosed as infectious hepatitis; the symptoms of acute cholangitis were found in 12 cases; and in 14 cases, various symptoms and signs of biliary diseases had been found for a long time before the diagnosis was established as cancer. In the remaining 5 cases, miscellaneous manifestaions were revealed. The patients were examined with B-US(19 cases), ERCP(10 cases) and PTC(39 cases). The final diagnosis was established according to the findings of PTC and / or ERCP, surgical exploration, or histopathological examination.Surgery was performed on 56 cases. Only 6 out of the 56 received radical resection of the cancer with hemi-hepatectomy; palliative internal drainage of the bile duct was done on 15 cases, external drainage on 23 cases, and other palliative measures on 12 cases. The average survival time after operation was 24.5 months iu 6 cases with radical resection, 8.7 months in 48 cases with palliative measures, and only 5 months in 4 cases without surgical intervention. Ear- ly diagnosis is imperative if successful therapy is expected. It is suggested that a patient over 40 years of age, suffering from "infectious hepatitis" or obstructive jaundice, be watched out for the possibility of hilum cancer, and appropriate examinations such as B-US,CT,ERCP or PTC be carried out. It is emphasized that PTC plays an important role izi the diagnosis of hilum cancer. In severe cases, the intrahepatic bile ducts could be examined with PTC of the two sides at oae time. Exploratory laparotomy should be performed on suspected cases.