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Persistence of the gallbladder following laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a case report
S A Cohen1, F F Attiyeh, F E Kasmin
1Section of Endoscopy, Beth Israel Medical Center North Division, New York, USA.
Endoscopy
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the technique of choice for cholecystectomy. No experience with congenital abnormalities of the gallbladder has been reported. We report here the case of a 42-year-old woman who developed recurrent symptoms seven months after laparoscopic cholecystectomy and was found to have the majority of her gallbladder still intact. We speculate that the patient had a bilobate gallbladder as the explanation for the mishap. She subsequently underwent open repeat surgery.