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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.


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