Black and Brown Pigment Gallstones Diffe
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Peter F. Malet; Arimichi Takabayashi; Bruce W. Trotman; Roger D. Soloway; Norman
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Article
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1984
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The two subtypes of pigment gallstones, black and brown stones, differ in chemical composition and pathogenesis. We examined a black bilirubinate stone and a black phosphate stone (which represented opposite ends of the compositional spectrum of black noncarbonate stones), a black carbonate stone, a