The heterogeneity of the biliary tree

J Hepatol. 2021 Nov;75(5):1236-1238. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.04.016. Epub 2021 Aug 20.

¹ Section of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands.
² Department of Pathology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, United States.
⁴ Section of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. Electronic address: r.j.porte@umcg.nl.

Abstract

Keywords: Anatomy; Bile duct physiology; Biliary tree; Cholangiopathies; Embryology; Peribiliary glands.