The More Common Risks With Colonoscopy Medical Malpractice Case
August 26th, 2007Misidentification of the anatomy is one of the most common causes of laparoscopic bile duct injury. The reason this happens is because the doctor makes a mistake and thinks the bile duct is the cystic duct. The common bile duct is clipped and divided when it shouldn’t be, and the gallbladder is retracted, causing a second higher injury. This injury is devastating as this virtually removes any possibility of avoiding operative management by either endoscopic and transhepathic techniques, and everything has to be surgically reconstructed in the biliary tree to establish drainage.
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