ABSENT GALLBLADDER AND CYSTIC DUCT

¹ Director, Department of Radiology, Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn; Clinical Associate Professor, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.
² Attending Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn; Clinical Associate Professor, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.

Three patients are reported with absence of the gallbladder and cystic duct.

The first case, whether congenital or acquired is indeterminate. In the second case, the gallbladder and common duct were probably destroyed by acute inflammatory disease. The last case most likely represents a true agenesis.

A preoperative diagnosis probably cannot be made.

Operative cholangiography is of value.

Acquired absence of the gallbladder and cystic duct may be difficult or impossible to differentiate from agenesis.

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