ECTOPIC LIVER OBSERVED BY PERITONEOSCOPY: REPORT OF A CASE

Abstract

The patient is a 28-year-old man in whom an ectopic liver was observed at the upper and internal surface of the gallbladder under peritoneoscopic examination. A bile duct cyst was found in a liver biopsy specimen of the main liver. The total number of ectopic livers reported in Japan was twenty, all of which were observed during an operation or an autopsy by chance. The present case is the first observed by peritoneoscopy.