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                                                                            Rouviere’s Sulcus and Critical View of Safety
          RESEARCH ARTICLE

          Rouviere’s Sulcus and Critical View of Safety:

          A Guide to prevent Bile Duct Injury during
          Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy


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          1 Malwinder Singh,  Atul Jain,  Subhajeet Dey,  Tanweer Karim,  Nabal Mishra,  Mansoor Bandey
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          ABSTRACT                                            work led to the respectability of laparoscopic surgery in
          Context: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a commonly per-  medical field.
          formed minimal invasive surgery. However, its advantages are   Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the “gold standard”
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          somewhat tempered due to risk of injury to bile duct.  for surgical treatment of symptomatic gallstones.
                                                              Minimal invasive surgery holds an important position in
          Aims: The objective of the study is to identify Rouviere’s sulcus
          (RS) and critical view of safety (CVS) before commencement   today’s practice. A large number of surgical procedures
          of dissection of Calot’s triangle to prevent injury to bile duct.  are performed laparoscopically worldwide with laparo-
                                                              scopic cholecystectomy being one of the most commonly
          Materials and methods: A series of consecutive 100 patients
          admitted in the Department of Surgery in our hospital with   practiced.
          uncomplicated symptomatic cholelithiasis underwent laparo-  The advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy over
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          scopic cholecystectomy identifying RS and CVS and complica-  open surgery are well known.  However, along with all
          tions (if any) emphasizing bile duct injury.        the benefits of minimal invasive procedure came the
          Results: The average duration of surgery after identifying  inherent drawbacks of performing surgeries in new and
          RS and achievement of CVS was 65.30 minutes. There was  unfamiliar way. The incidence of biliary tract injuries was
          no incidence of bile duct injury after identification of RS and   definitely more as compared with open cholecystectomy.
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          achievement of CVS.                                 Despite the advancement of laparoscopic cholecystectomy
          Conclusion: Rouviere’s sulcus is an important anatomical land-  techniques, biliary tract injury still continues to be an
          mark for the safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Achievement   important complication today, although the true inci-
          of CVS should be tried in all laparoscopic cholecystectomy.  dence is unknown. The most common cause of injury to
          Keywords: Bile duct injury, Critical view of safety, Laparoscopic  biliary tract is misidentification. The misidentifications
          cholecystectomy, Rouviere’s sulcus.                 are of two main types.
          How to cite this article: Singh M, Jain A, Dey S, Karim T,   In the first scenario, the common bile duct (CBD)
          Mishra N, Bandey M. Rouviere’s Sulcus and Critical View of  is mistaken to be the cystic duct and secondly, but
          Safety: A Guide to prevent Bile Duct Injury during Laparoscopic  less commonly, the identification of an aberrant right
          Cholecystectomy. World J Lap Surg 2018;11(1):25-28.  hepatic duct as the cystic duct.  The direction of trac-
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          Source of support: Nil                              tion of gallbladder has been known to contribute the
                                                              appearance of CBD as cystic duct which can lead to
          Conflict of interest: None
                                                              misidentification injury.
                                                                 When Hartmann’s pouch is pulled superiorly and not
          INTRODUCTION                                        laterally, the cystic duct and CBD get aligned and appear
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          Cholelithiasis was first described in 1420 by a Florentine   as single structure.  The Rouviere’s sulcus (RS) described
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          pathologist Antonio Benivenius.  The first open chole-  by Henri Rouviere in 1924 is now marked as a reference
          cystectomy was performed by Carl Johann August Lan-  point to guide the commencement of safe dissection. 10,11
          genbuch, a German surgeon, at the Lazarus Krankenhaus   It is a cleft in liver (Fig. 1) recognizable in >90% of patients,
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          on July 15, 1882,  whereas laparoscopic cholecystectomy   shown  by retracting  the gallbladder  infundibulum
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          was first performed in 1987 by Phillip Mouret.  His   medially.  Similarly, a well-delineated junction of cystic
                                                              duct with the gallbladder and demonstration of space
                                                              between gallbladder and liver clear of any structure
           1,2,5,6 Senior Resident,  Professor                other than cystic artery (safety window or critical view)
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           1-6 Department of Surgery, ESI-PGIMSR, ESI Hospital   (Fig. 2) is also recommended as an essential step to
           Basaidarapur, New Delhi, India                     prevent biliary tract injury.  For the last 15 years, achieve-
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           Corresponding Author: Atul Jain, Senior Resident, Department   ment of CVS has been adopted by surgeons throughout
           of Surgery, ESI-PGIMSR, ESI Hospital, Basaidarapur, New   the world for performance of laparoscopic cholecystec-
           Delhi, India, e-mail: docatuljain@gmail.com
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                                                              tomy.  When it was initially described, it was done so
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