Anatom3DIntrahepatic biliary tree
Ductus biliferi intrahepatici · Nitrojaterní žlučové cesty
Digestive system
Looks like
The bile ducts inside the liver, from tiny canals between liver cells to the right and left hepatic ducts.
What it does
Collects bile made by the liver and carries it toward the gallbladder and gut.
Keeping it well
Blockage widens these ducts on ultrasound. Yellow skin, dark urine and pale stools need prompt tests; PSC and bile duct cancer affect it.
Related conditions
- Acute liver failure
- Acute porphyria
- Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens
- Alcohol-related liver disease
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)
- Biliary atresia
- Brucellosis
- Cirrhosis
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Ebola virus disease
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Eye melanoma (uveal melanoma)
- Gallstones
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Haemochromatosis & Wilson's disease
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- High cholesterol
- Intestinal worms & schistosomiasis
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Leishmaniasis
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
- Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma)
- Malaria
- Metabolic fatty liver disease (MASLD)
- Metabolic syndrome
- Myelofibrosis
- Newborn jaundice
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Poisoning & overdose
- Portal vein thrombosis and Budd–Chiari syndrome
- Primary biliary cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Viral hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)
- Yellow fever