Duplicated Gallbladder

Unsuspected Duplicated Gallbladder in a Patient Presenting with Acute Cholecystitis

Duplicated gallbladder (GB) is a rare congenital disease. Surgical management of a duplicated GB needs special care because of concurrent bile duct anomalies and the risk of injuring adjacent arteries during surgery. An 80-year-old man visited an emergency room with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Computed tomography (CT) revealed cholecystitis with a 2-bodied GB. Because of this unusual f...

Duplicated gallbladder: surgical application and review of the literature.

Duplicated gallbladder is a rare congenital anomaly, usually asymptomatic and occurring as incidental radiographic or surgical finding during upper abdomen, liver and extrahepatic biliary tract surgery. We report on a case of two separate gallbladders, one main and one accessory, each one with its own cystic duct. The main cystic duct drained into the common bile duct while the accessory bile d...

Laparoscopic double cholecystectomy for duplicated gallbladder: A case report

Introduction Duplication of the gallbladder (GB) is a very rare surgical encounter affecting 1 in 4000-5000 population that often eludes detection on preoperative ultrasonography, and might increase operative difficulty and risk. The H-type anomaly is the most common whereby each GB drains into the common bile duct via a separate cystic duct. Presentation of case We report a young female pati...

Acute cholecystitis of a duplicated gallbladder with double cystic duct in a 10 year old boy.

service with complaints of jaundice, vomiting, fever and right upper quadrant abdominal pain. He had Murphy’s sign during his physical examination, and a history of thalassemia minor. Laboratory data revealed acute cholecystitis with significant elevations of cholestatic liver enzymes. An abdominal ultrasound (US) (ACUSON Antares Siemens Medical Systems, Erlangen, Germany) showed two hydropic g...

Gallbladder Volume Indicated for Gallbladder Dysmotility