Progress in laparoscopic anatomy research: A review of the Chinese literature

Figure 1 Anatomy of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) (blue curves stand for bile duct and gallbladder and red curves for arteries). A: Illustration of a variant cystic artery originating from the right hepatic artery; B: Cystic duct connected to the left wall of hepatic duct via an anterior approach; C: Cystic duct parallel with common hepatic duct; D: Cystic duct connected to the right hepatic duct; E: Calot’s triangle and Rouviere sulcus in LC.