These cancers start in the small tubes (called bile ducts) that carry bile to the intestine.
The much longer pathway, the biliopancreatic loop, carries bile from the liver to the common channel.
Gallstones can develop in the gallbladder or in the bile ducts, which are tubes that carry bile to the small intestine.
Injury to the cystic duct, which carries bile from the gallbladder to the common bile duct.
Most babies who need liver transplants have a congenital condition, biliary atresia, in which ducts that carry bile from the liver are blocked.
Blockage of the bile duct, which carries bile formed in the liver to the intestines where it helps in the digestion of fats.
Find a blocked tube or stones in the tube that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder (bile duct).
A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile.
A disease called primary biliary cirrhosis develops when the ducts that carry bile out of the liver become inflamed and blocked.
A gallstone stuck in the cystic duct , a tube that carries bile from the gallbladder, is most often the cause of sudden (acute) cholecystitis.