The doctor says the patient has gall stones; sometimes he operates when that should not be done.

All further investigations were negative apart from the finding of gall stones in three patients.

No attention was paid to previous cholecystectomy not to the presence of gall stones.

Let us take a case of gall stones.

Four became pregnant after their primary gall stones had dissolved but before trial entry.

My dad had gall stones for a while.

All patients were symptomatic and had proven gall stones.

It may also refer to abnormal processes that result in kidney and gall stones.

Patients with gall stones or established inflammatory bowel disease were excluded.

In humans, enteroliths are rare and may be difficult to distinguish from gall stones.

An association with pigmented gall stones was noted in 1911 by Washborn.

The aetiology of cholesterol gall stones has not been completely elucidated.

Further development is required if this technique is to be included in the alternative treatments for the management of gall stones.

Thus the rotary lithotrite could have a role in the management of gall stones if the problems encountered can be overcome.

Symptoms were unchanged in 7% of patients and therefore were unlikely to have been caused by gall stones.

Gall stones: Indian snakeroot might make gallbladder disease worse.

Whatever the mechanism is, the patients with cholesterol gall stones produce less metastable hepatic bile.

Between January 1988 and December 1990, 283 patients with symptomatic gall stones were referred for non-operative treatment.

Avoiding triggers such as alcohol, or removing gall stones, can reduce the risk of chronic pancreatitis.

The introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has changed the approach to the treatment of symptomatic gall stones.

The presence of symptomatic gall stones in eight patients is interesting and is the subject of a more thorough investigation.

This is an unlikely explanation, however, because, in the population, most people with gall stones have functioning gall bladders.

The ultrasound probe is used to locate gall stones which may have migrated into the common bile duct.

It has been used to break up kidney and gall stones, and as an antidote against the poison of certain snake bites.

No gall stones, gall bladder wall thickening, or other pathology were identified in any subject.