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Hepatic inversion with an epigastric gallbladder.

K D Hopper
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Inversion of the liver and anomalous positions of the gallbladder are both rare. We report a patient with an anterior suprahepatic midline gallbladder associated with hepatic inversion. This association of these two rare anomalies has not, to our knowledge, been previously reported.

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K D Hopper. 1988. Hepatic inversion with an epigastric gallbladder.. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01889098

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