A true trilobed gallbladder, an extremely rare gallbladder malformation
Bewuketu Kefyalew1, Alamirew Beneberu1
1Department of Radiology, Myung sung Christian Medical College, Jackros - Salite Mehret Road, 17293 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Radiology Case Reports
|February 16, 2026
Abstract:
Congenital anomalies of gallbladder are very rare and a true trilobed anomaly of the gallbladder is extremely rare that there is only a single case report in the world literature. This case presents the second case of a true trilobed gallbladder, a different entity from the triple gallbladders, where 3 different lobes of the gallbladder are interconnected to each other by a narrow neck like communication and drains to a single cystic duct through one of the lobes.
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