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A 10-year-old Pomeranian showed a gallbladder wall defect, a tortuous tubular structure extending into an adjacent ill-defined hepatic lesion. Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography revealed marked enhancement of the tubular structure and weaker heterogeneous enhancement of the hepatic lesion. Laparotomy confirmed gallbladder rupture with severe adhesion at the suspected communication site. 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