Intrahepatic bile duct
- The ducts collecting the bile inside the liver.
Bile canaliculi (channels between hepatocytes)
Transport the bile produced by hepatocytes to:
Intralobular bile ducts (at the periphery of the hepatic lobule)
Interlobular bile ducts
emerge.
Right & left bile duct
from right lobe
left lobe
Extrahepatic bile ducts
- From the porta hepatis to the duodenum within the hepatoduodenal ligament
Right hepatic duct
left hepatic duct
emerge from porta hepatis
common hepatic duct
cystic duct (from the gallbladder)
Bile Duct 6-8 cm long
9.1 Supraduodenal part
9.2 Retroduodenal part (behind the superior part of the duodenum)
9.3 Pancreatic Part
- Located in a groove between the descending part of the duodenum and the head of pancreas
- Elevates the longitudinal folds of the duodenum
9.4 Intramural part
- passes inside the medial wall of the descending part of the duodenum