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Table 2 Strasberg Classification System

From: Iatrogenic bile duct injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: evaluation by MRCP before management

Types

Description

Type A

Cystic duct leak or leak from small ducts in the liver bed

Type B

Partial occlusion of the biliary tree, almost invariably the aberrant right hepatic duct

Type C

Transection without ligation of the aberrant right hepatic duct with consequent bile leak

Type D

Lateral injury to a major bile duct without loss of continuity

Type E

Subdivided as per Bismuth’s classification types I–V as into

E1–E5