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Hepatobiliary Surgery
Liver, biliary tree and pancreas: the most anatomy-dense corner of general surgery, where the operation is planned segment by segment on imaging before the incision, and where variant ducts and vessels are the rule rather than the exception.
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Videos
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Bail-out strategies for the difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy
What to do when the critical view will not come: subtotal, fundus-first, or stop.
Source: SAGES · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- The point at which dissection stops being safe
- Fenestrating versus reconstituting subtotal cholecystectomy
- Why conversion is not failure
The Whipple procedure
What is removed, what is reconnected, and why the three anastomoses matter.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- The specimen: pancreatic head, duodenum, bile duct, gallbladder
- Pancreaticojejunostomy, hepaticojejunostomy, gastrojejunostomy
- The leak that everyone worries about
Pancreatic anatomy and the Whipple operation
The anatomy lecture that makes the operation make sense: SMV, portal vein and the uncinate.
Source: Medical College of Wisconsin · Watch on YouTubeERCP with sphincterotomy
The endoscopic view: cannulating the papilla, the cut, and the stone coming out.
Source: Digestive Disease Center, Medical University of South Carolina · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- The papilla and the direction of the bile duct
- The sphincterotomy cut along the 11 to 12 o'clock axis
- Balloon trawl of the duct
Putting the P in ERCP: pancreatic duct stenting, sphincterotomy and drainage
A teaching lecture on the pancreatic side of ERCP and the complications it is trying to avoid.
Source: Sheffield Gastroenterology · Watch on YouTubeMinimally invasive liver resection
A short institutional explainer of how a segment of liver is taken laparoscopically.
Source: Emory Healthcare · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- Inflow control and the Pringle manoeuvre
- Parenchymal transection along the segmental plane
- What a bile leak looks like on the drain
Learning curve and techniques of laparoscopic liver resection
A society presentation on technique and how the difficult liver changes the plan.
Source: SAGES · Watch on YouTube
Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Hepatobiliary surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.