The Gallbladder in Relation to Other Digestive Organs
The gallbladder is attached to a network called the biliary tree or the biliary system. This is a well-integrated and finely-orchestrated management system starting in the liver where bile is collected and shunted into small ductules and sent out through larger hepatic ducts into the common bile duct.
The common bile duct transverses the pancreas where it connects with the pancreatic duct at the ampulla of Vater. The bile and the pancreatic juices are then secreted together into the duodenal portion of the small intestine of the sphincter of Oddi.
