• Emmanouil Pikoulis, Panayiotis Daskalakis, Efthimios D Avgerinos, Evangelia Gougoudi, Ioannis Karavokyros, Ari Leppäniemi, Emmanouil Pavlakis, Dimitrios K Filippou, Nikolaos Psalidas, Nicolas Condilis, and Panayiotis Tsatsoulis.
• Second Department of Surgery, General Hospital ASCLEPEION Voulas, Athens, Greece.
• Ann Ital Chir. 2006 Jul 1;77(4):319-22.

Background/AimsBlunt trauma to the extrahepatic biliary tract is a rare and challenging injury The purpose of this paper is to review our experience of these injuries, with special reference to their clinical presentation.Patients And MethodsIn a retrospective multicenter study of the records of a trauma-admitting in three hospitals, seven patients with blunt extrahepatic biliary tract trauma were identified, one with combined gallbladder and common bile duct injuries and six with a ruptured gallbladder.ResultsExcept for the patient with the common bile duct injury developing peritoneal signs during observation and being operated 24 hours post-admission, all other patients underwent early laparotomy for shock, peritonitis or positive diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) caused by associated injuries. The common bile duct injury was treated with suture repair over a T tube and the gallbladder injuries with cholecystectomy, except for two cases in which a cholecystostomy was performed.ConclusionsIn patients with blunt trauma, especially to the right upper quadrant, a high index of suspicion and liberal use of diagnostic studies to exclude an isolated extrahepatic biliary tract injury is recommended.

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