Gallbladder & extrahepatic bile ducts
Gallbladder
Congenital anomalies
Duplication
Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.
Topic Completed: 1 September 2012
Minor changes: 26 August 2019
Copyright: 2003-2019, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PubMed Search: Gallbladder duplication[TI]
Cite this page: Gulwani H Duplication. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/gallbladderduplication.html. Accessed July 6th, 2020.
Definition / general
- Excessive budding of the caudal diverticulum
- Duplicated cystic ducts may enter CBD separately (H type) or united (Y type) or rarely drain independently into hepatic ducts
- Stones, inflammatory conditions and tumors preferentially involve one of the gallbladders
Diagrams / tables
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Types of gallbladder duplication
Case reports
- 5 year old girl with jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly and pancytopenia (Tunis Med 2011;89:798)
- 58 year old man with right upper quadrant pain (JSLS 2010;14:611)
- Two separate gallbladders, one main and one accessory, each with its own cystic duct (Ital J Anat Embryol 2011;116:61)
- Triple gallbladder (Am J Gastroenterol 2011;106:1861)
Clinical images
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Intraoperative images
