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The role of bacteria in gallstone pathogenesis
1 Jan 2001
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria are often found in high concentrations in brown pigment and less so in cholesterol gallstones. Although it is intriguing to hypothesize that cholesterol stone formation is non-bacterial in nature and principally different from the pathogenesis of "infectious" brown pigment gallstones, it is more likely that significant overlap exists between the two processes. Most gallstones are composite in nature....
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