WHEN, as a result of trauma or disease, a communication becomes established between blood vessels and the biliary tract so that blood enters the duodenum along with the bile the condition is called hemobilia, a term introduced by Sandblom1 in 1948. Blood reaches the common bile duct by way of the intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile ducts. Hemorrhage originating in and confined to the gallbladder is not hemobilia, but hemocholecyst. The term hemobilia does not apply when hemorrhage starts in the gallbladder and blood enters the alimentary canal through a cholecystointestinal fistula, or when it originates from the intestinal end of . . .