MULTISEPTATE GALLBLADDER AS A CAUSE OF BILIARY PAIN

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.