title: [Left-sided gallbladder].
abstract: Transposition of the gallbladder to the left side without situs inversus viscerum is rare. These gallbladders are almost always situated under the left lobe of the liver between the IV and III segments or on the III segment to the left of the falciform ligament. One left positioned gallbladder was found in a consecutive series of 2536 patients undergoing microlaparotomy cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstone disease in the "Moritz Kaposi" Teaching Hospital between 1990 and 2000, a prevalence of 0.04 per cent. Despite of the abnormal position of the gallbladder, the biliary pain experienced by the patient was on the right side. Preoperative diagnosis of this anomaly was not made in this patient despite preoperative sonography. The cystic duct may open in the common hepatic duct either side. In this anomaly safe microlaparotomy cholecystectomy or laparoscopic cholecystectomy can be performed.
authors.affiliation: Kaposi Mór Megyei Kórház Altalános Sebészeti, Er- és Mellkassebészeti Osztály, 7400 Kaposvár, Tallián Gyula u. 20-34.
authors.forename: István
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rozsos
authors.forename: József
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ferenczy
authors.forename: Károly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vincze
authors.forename: Schmitz
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rainer
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000379:methods*; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography