Laget reports an instance of supernumerary lobe in the liver. Van
Buren describes a supernumerary liver. Sometimes there is
rotation, real or apparent, caused by transposition of the
characteristics of the liver. Handy mentions such a case.
Kirmisson reports a singular anomaly of the liver which he calls
double displacement by interversion and rotation on the vertical
axis. Actual displacements of the liver as well as what is known
as wandering liver are not uncommon. The operation for floating
liver will be spoken of later.
Hawkins reports a case of congenital obliteration of the ductus
communis choledochus in a male infant which died at the age of
four and a half months. Jaundice appeared on the eighth day and
lasted through the short life. The hepatic and cystic ducts were
pervious and the hepatic duct obliterated. There were signs of
hepatic cirrhosis and in addition an inguinal hernia
The Gall-Bladder.--Harle mentions the case of a man of fifty, in
whom he could find no gall-bladder; Patterson has seen a similar
instance in a men of twenty-five. Purser describes a double
gall-bladder.
The spleen has been found deficient or wanting by Lebby, Ramsay,
and others, but more frequently it is seen doubled.
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