5. In which races are gallstones particularly common?
Correct answer: They are particularly common in the Mediterranean races, and the highest incidence is found among the Indians of New Mexico.
4. In which sex are gallstones more common?
Correct answer: They are twice as common in women.
3. In which age group are gallstones typically found?
Correct answer: They are rare in children (although they should still be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in children if the diagnosis is not to be overlooked, and should always be considered in children with spherocytosis or…
2. What are the principal developmental anomalies of the gallbladder and bile ducts which may present to the surgeon during cholecystectomy?
Correct answer: (1) A long cystic duct travelling alongside the common hepatic duct to open near the duodenal orifice. (2) Congenital absence of the gallbladder.(3) Congenital obliteration of the ducts (biliary atresia, one of the causes of neonatal jaundice).(4) Absence…
1. Developmentally, how do the gallbladder, liver and hepatic ducts form?
Correct answer: A diverticulum grows out from the ventral wall of the foregut (primitive duodenum), which differentiates into the hepatic ducts and the liver. A lateral bud from this diverticulum becomes the gallbladder and cystic duct.
