A 41-year-old woman is brought to the emergency depament by her family because of acute onset of right upper quadrant pain, nausea, and vomiting. For this case, it is impoant to remember that the bile duct:
The bile duct is formed by union of the common hepatic and cystic ducts, lies lateral to the proper hepatic aery and anterior to the poal vein in the right free margin of the lesser omentum, traverses the head of the pancreas, and drains bile into the second pa of the duodenum at the greater papilla.
Drains bile into the second pa of the duodenum
Can be blocked by cancer in the body of the pancreas
Joins the main pancreatic duct, which carries hormones
Is formed by union of the right and left hepatic duct
Small and Large intestine