Pregnancy and Gallstones
โ Scribed by Gregory T. Everson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 364 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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We read with great interest the article entitled ''Diet and Gallstone in Italy: The Cross-Sectional MICOL Results'' by Attili et al. 1 However, the authors considered the patients to be one homogeneous group, whereas stones can be divided into cholesterol or black pigment types based on composition.
We found the article by Venneman and coworkers 1 of great interest. In the effort to identify the potential risk factors for patients with gallbladder stones (GBSs) to develop pancreatitis, they consider several clinical, histopathological, biochemical, and ultrasonographic parameters, finding only
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