Duplication

Gallbladder
Congenital anomalies
Duplication

Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.D., M.B.B.S., D.N.B. (Path)

Topic Completed: 1 September 2012

Revised: 14 February 2019

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Table of Contents

Definition / general | Diagrams / tables | Case reports | Clinical images

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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