The role of intraoperative cholangiography in the immediate identification of changes in biliary tract [O papel da colangiografia intraoperatória na identificação imediata das variações das vias biliares]

Abstract

Cholelithiasis is one of the most prevalent diseases in the adult population. Iatrogenic injury involving the bile duct constitutes one of the most feared situations by surgeons, occurring both in open surgery as in laparoscopic. Discusses the determinants of the development of these lesions causes, as well as the anatomical variations of the biliary tree associated with the presence of aberrant bile ducts or accessories that are inadvertently injured. The authors report two cases of accessory bile duct lesions of the biliary tract, which were diagnosed by perfoming introperative cholangiography and promptly corrected during surgery. © 2014 Redprint Editora Ltda. All rights reserved.