GALLBLADDER AGENESIS: AN ANATOMICAL SURPRISE
Sarra Bahja*, Mohamed Fdil*, Hakima Abid, Abdesslam Bouassria, Ousadden Abdelmalek, El Bouhaddouti Hicham, Ouadii Mouaqit, El Bachir Benjeloun, Ait Taleb Khalid and Mohammed El Abkari
ABSTRACT
We report the case of a patient with a rare congenital anomaly of the bile ducts: gallbladder agenesis. This rare congenital anomaly is often asymptomatic and undetected during life. In our patient, admitted for acute lithiasic angiocholitis complicated by liver abscesses, agenesis of the gallbladder was suspected on ultrasound and confirmed by surgical exploration.
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