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Congenital anomalous connection between the left intrahepatic bile duct and the stomach

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An accessory bile duct is found in up to 4% of necropsies and is usually a single thin-walled channel that drains a segment of the right lobe of the liver into the common bile duct or, rarely, into the gallbladder. However, accessory bile ducts draining into the gastrointestinal tract are extremely rare. We report a patient with an accessory bile duct draining into the stomach and review the literature pertaining to this condition.

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  1.  Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, 8 Hak-Dong, Dong-ku, Kwangju 501-757, Korea, , , , , , KR

    Young-Eun Joo, Hyun-Soo Kim, Sung-Kyu Choi, Jong-Sun Rew & Sei-Jong Kim

  2.  Department of General Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Kwangju, Korea, , , , , , KR

    Chol-Kyoon Cho

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Received: March 26, 2001 / Accepted: July 6, 2001

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Joo, YE., Kim, HS., Choi, SK. et al. Congenital anomalous connection between the left intrahepatic bile duct and the stomach. J Gastroenterol 37, 961–965 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005350200161

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