3) Each and every segment forms the parenchymal channel of the Porta hepatis (inferior hepatic hilum), where they receive their segmental vascular pedicles; these are the three characteristics that define a liver portal segment.
MRI of the abdomen showed an 11 x 12 x 14 cm mixed cystic and solid mass centered in the right adrenal gland and 3.4 x 2.9 x 3.8 cm mass in the region of the porta hepatis.
Enhanced computed tomography showed ascites, dilatation of the intrahepatic bile duct, and a huge cystic mass in the porta hepatis area extending down to the level of the pancreatic head.
Case 1 exhibited type 2 porta hepatis (6), a common bile duct with ductal lumens in the midst of loose fibrous tissue, and a gallbladder with considerable luminal dilatation.
A porta hepatis lymph node was biopsied in September 2011 during the chemotherapy which was reported as granulomatous inflammation with a possibility of tuberculosis".
Eleven (34.37%) patients had common bile duct leak, 9 (28.13%) had common hepatic duct injury, 9 (28.13%) had CBD strictures and 3 (09.37%) had injury to the biliary tree at porta hepatis level.