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Intra-operative cholangiography confirming normal hepatic duct/common bile duct, absence of gallbladder and cystic duct, confirming the hypothesis of agenesis of the gallbladder. A clamp was placed in the common bile duct (a) and then released (b)
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AGB was raised. An intra-operative cholangiography confirmed the hypothesis [Figure 1a and b].
Post-operative contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography scan (portal venous phase) confirming the absence of the gallbladder in its fossa
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The postoperative recovery was uneventful, and the abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan failed to show the presence of the gallbladder, therefore confirming the diagnosis of AGB [Figure 2].