Extrahepatic Bile Ducts

Extrahepatic bile duct (EHBD) is a part of the common hepatic bile duct (tube that collects bile from the liver) that is outside the liver. This duct joins a duct from the gallbladder to form the common bile duct, which carries bile into the small intestine when food is being digested. Bile is secreted from the apical surface of adjoining hepatocytes into the bile canaliculi (grooves in the cell surface), and then flows though the intra hepatic bile ducts (IHBD) to the EHBD.