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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy The common bile duct is mistaken for the cystic duct and transected. A variable extent of the extrahepatic biliary tree is resected with the gallbladder. The right hepatic artery, in background, is also often injured. Redrawn with permission from: Branum, G, Schmidt, C, Baillie, J, et al. Management of major biliary complications after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Ann Surg 1993; 217:532. Copyright © 1993 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.