Mitch was diagnosed with gallstones. Afraid to get a surgery done, he kept postponing the procedure. Within a month of his diagnosis, he developed an excruciating pain in his abdomen. When he was taken to the hospital, the doctors informed his family that necrosis of pancreatic tissue had set in. What do you think had happened to Mitch?

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Mitch was diagnosed with gallstones. Afraid to get a surgery done, he kept postponing the procedure. Within a month of his diagnosis, he developed an excruciating pain in his abdomen. When he was taken to the hospital, the doctors informed his family that necrosis of pancreatic tissue had set in. What do you think had happened to Mitch?

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A tubular structure formed by the joining of the CHD (common hepatic duct) and the short duct (cystic duct) is called the CBD (common bile duct). It carries bile (an alkaline fluid) from the gall bladder and empties it into the duodenum (upper part of the small bowel). 

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