title: Laparoscopic management of gallbladder-associated ectopic liver.
abstract: Ectopic liver is a rare entity discussed infrequently in the surgical literature. Liver ectopia develops due to rests of liver parenchyma retained at various intraperitoneal or intrathoracic locations during migration of the liver proper during embryologic development. It is usually found during exploration for other diagnoses, commonly diseases of the biliary tree. We report a case in which a 3.7-cm mass associated with the fundus of the gallbladder was visualized preoperatively by computed tomography and identified histologically as ectopic liver after diagnostic laparoscopy and cholecystectomy with en bloc resection of the associated mass.
authors.affiliation: Dwight D Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Departrnent of General Surgery, Fort Gordon, Georgia 30905, USA. jlundy1313@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lundy
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rivera
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic; D002828:Choristoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004378:Duodenal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology