Familial Prevalence of Gallstones in First-Degree Relatives of Patients With Gallstones to subject their asymptomatic patients with gallstones Reply: to unnecessary surgery. Where have we made even the slightest hint that the relatives with asymptomatic We were a bit surprised to read the letter by
Familial prevalence of gallstone in first-degree relatives of patients with gallstones
โ Scribed by SK Sarin
- Book ID
- 118686081
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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Familial Prevalence of Gallstones in First-Degree Relatives of Patients With Gallstones patients should always be screened for gallstone occur-To the Editor: rence.'' Why? The most likely consequence is that their asymptomatic gallstones will be removed, exposing We write in response to the recent a
Limited information is available on the prevalence of gallstones in the first-degree relatives of gallstone patients. Three groups of subjects were studied by realtime ultrasound examination: group A, 105 index gallstone patients (male/female; 2085); group B, 330 firstdegree relatives of index patie