Anteroposition of the portal vein and spontaneous passage of gall-stones case report and embryological hypothesis

✍ Scribed by Wilfrid Brook; Michael Gardner

• Book ID: 101737091
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 277 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800590915

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A case of a woman who passed seven gall-stones ‘per vias naturales’ is presented. At subsequent operation for painful jaundice the portal vein was found to lie in front of the common bile-duct, although in its lower part it was retroduodenal.

A new embryological hypothesis to explain the preductal portral vein is presented.