Where is the gallbladder located relative to the liver and duodenum?

Attached to the inferior border of the spleen where bile is concentrated and then secreted through an accessory duct that bypasses the duodenum entirely.

Tucked beneath the liver, storing bile until it is released into the duodenum via the common bile duct.

Posterior to the stomach at the level of the ileocecal junction where it mixes with bile from the liver before entering the colon.

Embedded within the pancreatic tail, releasing bile directly into the jejunum independently of liver drainage patterns.