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Record W4411057414 · doi:10.14309/crj.0000000000001726

The Curious Case of Gallbladder Duplication

2025· article· en· W4411057414 on OpenAlexaff
Fahd Jowhari, David Hurlbut

Bibliographic record

VenueACG Case Reports Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCongenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
Canadian institutionsKingston General HospitalQueen's UniversityUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusKelowna General HospitalUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineGene duplicationGallbladderGeneral surgeryInternal medicineGeneticsBiologyGene

Abstract

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CASE REPORT A 33-year-old man presented with characteristic biliary colic. Laboratory tests, including liver function tests and inflammatory markers, were normal. An abdominal ultrasound revealed a well-circumscribed, anechoic pericholecystic fluid collection, without signs of acute cholecystitis (Figure 1). Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging/magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography showed a duplicated gallbladder, each with a separate cystic duct entering the common bile duct (Figure 1).Figure 1.: (A) Ultrasound abdomen shows the native gallbladder (solid horizontal arrow) with a well-circumscribed small fluid collection (vertical arrow). (B) Magnetic resonance imaging/magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography shows the duplicated gallbladder with a separate cystic duct (solid white arrow). (C) Duplicated gallbladder showed focal mucosal thickening by heterotopic gastric mucosa (1; original magnification 25×) with parietal cells (2; arrowheads; original magnification 200×). There was a background of chronic inflammation with foveolar (gastric pyloric) and focal squamous metaplasia (3; original magnification 100×).Gallbladder duplication (with distinct cystic ducts and arteries) was confirmed at the time of laparoscopic removal. There were no stones. The smaller “accessory” gallbladder showed mural thickening without mass-like lesion or nodularity grossly and histopathology revealed heterotopic gastric mucosa with parietal cells, a background of chronic inflammation with foveolar (gastric pyloric) and focal squamous metaplasia, and no neoplasia (Figure 1). Gallbladder duplication is a rare congenital anomaly, occurring in approximately 1 per 4,000 individuals.1 While often asymptomatic and discovered incidentally, it may present with biliary symptoms due to cholelithiasis or cholecystitis. Preoperative identification is crucial, as unrecognized duplication may increase the risk of biliary tree injury or incomplete cholecystectomy.2 Magnetic resonance imaging/magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography showed is instrumental in these cases to delineate anomalous relationships between the gallbladder, cystic duct, and common bile duct. Gastric heterotopia within the gallbladder is exceedingly rare and is hypothesized to result from either a low-grade inflammatory response or aberrant embryological migration.3 Its clinical significance remains uncertain but underscores the importance of thorough histological evaluation. This case highlights the necessity for clinicians to consider rare anatomical variations in biliary pathology, as early recognition and surgical planning are essential in preventing complications. DISCLOSURES Author contributions: F. Jowhari: case review, compiling, editing, and writing final manuscript. D. Hurlbut: acquired/edited histological images of the case, editing of final manuscript. F. Jowhari is the article guarantor. Acknowledgments: Special thanks to Dr. Xi Wang for helping acquire and format the radiographic images from the case. Financial disclosure: None to report. Informed consent was obtained for this case report.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.151
Threshold uncertainty score0.225

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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