Though innumerable congenital anomalies related to the gallbladder and biliary tree have been described but yet a surgeon may be taken by surprise due to a presentation of a congenital anomaly during cholecystectomy totally unreported in textbook or biomedical literature. The 20 year old, married female patient was put up for laparoscopic cholecystectomy while I was working in a teaching hospital in NCR area. The ultrasound of the abdomen showed multiple stones in the gallbladder with a normal CBD. Due to bad adhesions in Calot’s triangle, we converted the procedure to open one.
The dissection was started by the fundus first method and soon a second intrahepatic gallbladder look alike, a pear-shaped structure was found. It was of same size and shape as that of the gallbladder in question. On being opened it showed a blind sac with a common adjacent wall with the gallbladder and it…
