Symptomatic duplicated gall bladder – A rare presentation with a review of the literature

Gupta, Amit; Gajula, Bhargav; Jain, Jaydeep; Sharma, Jyoti; Chauhan, Udit; Kant, Ravi

doi:10.4103/jme.jme_6_20

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“…It is usually detected when it becomes symptomatic, as an incidental finding in laparotomy, autopsy, or imaging studies. Boyden classified gall bladder duplication into three types; Type 1: bilobed gall bladder with incomplete division and one common cystic duct; Type 2: completely duplicated gall bladder with separate cystic ducts that lead to common hepatic duct; Type 3: completely duplicated gallbladder with a common cystic duct entering the common hepatic duct [3].…”

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Laparoscopic Management of Double Gall Bladder: A Case Series

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Double gall bladder or duplication of the gall bladder is a rare congenital malformation. It poses a challenge to the surgeon and the radiologist, both in preoperative evaluation and intraoperative management. In the era of minimal invasive surgery, clear knowledge of extrahepatic biliary anatomical variations is very much essential. The operating surgeon should be very careful and overcautious in identifying such variations to prevent untoward biliary tract injury. In this series of two cases, we present the clinical peculiarities, preoperative diagnosis, and laparoscopic management of the duplicate gall bladder.

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“…The most confusing differential is the Type 2 choledochal cyst, an isolated true diverticulum protruding from the wall of the common bile duct. The only way to differentiate between Type 2 choledochal cyst and double gall bladder is the presence of muscle layer in histopathology examination in the latter entity [3].…”

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