can any body give me published articles about portal vein being anterior to CBD?
recently a case was imaged by me where i though the cbd was dilatd assuming the normal anatomy of the cbd being anterior to the portal vein, but on laparatomy for cholelithiasis and dialted cbd the dilated anterior structure turned out to be portal vein! i would like to know of any published article about this reversal of normal relation of the cbd hepatic artery and portal vein if reported previously or if any body has encountered such a variation in his practise confirmed either by color doppler( which was incidentally not done in this case) or upon operative laparotomy.
