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Surgical review| Volume 106, ISSUE 1, P89-93, July 1963

Floating gallbladder calculi

Their incidence in a review of one thousand cholecystograms
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      Abstract

      A review of 1,000 cholecystograms is reported and the incidence of cholelithiasis with particular reference to floating calculi is noted. The majority of persons with these stones were women; no direct correlation could be made between the floating calculi and the clinical history of the patient.
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