On the basis of a recent case of fundic gastric heterotopia in the gallbladder, the principal, possible embryogenetic hypotheses of the malformation are described and discussed. The possibility that acid secretion of the gastric glands contained in the ectopic fundic mucosa determined part of the symptomatological and clinical picture accompanying signs of lithiasic cholecystopathy is also evaluated.
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