A prized ingredient in China’s multibillion-dollar industry for traditional medicine, gallstones have become the must-have ...

If sufficiently large, a gallstone may lodge at the narrowest part of the gastrointestinal tract, usually the terminal ileum, and present with small bowel obstruction. Here the authors present the ...

The stones can vary in size, with some being as small as a grain of sand or a pea or as big as a golf ball. Even though they are stones, there are differences between gallstones and kidney stones.

Gall stones are also very prevalent in these countries but little is known about the association between insulin and gall stones. AIMS To study the relationships between insulin and the incidence of ...

Nucleation time and cholesterol saturation index of hepatic and gall-bladder bile were measured in 16 patients with cholesterol gall stones to determine whether a gall bladder or liver defect was ...