A 45-yr-old Japanese woman with multiseptate gallbladder, a quite rare
congenital anomaly, is presented. Her epigastric pain, with a 35-yr h
istory, was relieved by cholecystectomy. The septa were present only a
t the neck portion of the gallbladder and were lined by mucosal epithe
lium containing a muscular layer continuous to the gallbladder wall. A
review of 26 patients (including the present case) reported in the wo
rld literature revealed that only two of them had such partial involve
ment at the infundibulum of the gallbladder.