TRUE LEFT SIDED GALL BLADDER: A SURGICAL SURPRISE

INTRODUCTION: Left sided gallbladder is a rare anomaly & several variants exist. The condition cannot be diagnosed pre-operatively by most of the radiological modalities and it can take operating surgeon, surprise. CASE PRESENTATION: A young lady with symptomatic gallstones was unexpectedly found to have left during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Though, her routine preoperative work up did not show anything abnormal, as usual in such anatomical variation. She successfully managed cholecystectomy modifying camera angle dissection technique. CONCLUSION: knowledge various structures timely recognize variations very important avoid injury cases. technique may need modified for safe successful outcome.