[Cancer of the head of the pancreas and common bile duct (an anatomical, cholangiographic and clinical study)].

A study was carried out on the principal alterations of the common bile duct in pancreatic neoplasms by gross and microscopic morphological examinations and intraoperative cholangiographies. Correlation of the data furnished evidence of various coinvolvement mechanisms of the lower common bile duct by the neoplastic process, mechanisms that lead to a closer understanding of the clinical symptomatology and interpretation of intraoperative cholangiographies.