title: Left-sided gallbladder discovered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with dextrocardia.
abstract: Left-sided gallbladder, a rare congenital anomaly, is often associated with transposition of single or multiple viscera of thorax and/or abdomen. Clinical features and routine presurgical ultrasonography could miss the anomalous position thereby producing unnecessary anxiety during surgery. Here we are reporting a patient with left-sided gallbladder, known to have dextrocardia with multiple intracardiac anomalies, and detected incidentally in a series of 1258 consecutive laparoscopic cholecystectomies. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed successfully in this patient with port site modification and careful dissection. Some degree of abdominal visceral situs inversus is to be anticipated in patients with dextrocardia.
authors.affiliation: Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Sagar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sadhu
authors.forename: Tarshid A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Jahangir
authors.forename: Manas K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Roy
keywords: Dextrocardia; Left-sided gallbladder
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