Gastroenterology
Volume 93, Issue 1 , Pages 98-105, July 1987

Dissolution of cholesterol gallstones in vitro:☆☆☆

Gallstone matrix content and diameter, not cholesterol content, predict gallstone dissolution in monooctanoin

  • Bernard F. Smith

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Bernard F. Smith, M.D., Section of Gastroenterology, University Hospital, 75 East Newton Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118.

Section of Gastroenterology and Eyans Memorial Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital and Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Received 2 October 1986; accepted 9 February 1987.

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☆ This work was supported by a National Institutes of Health Clinical Investigator Award (AM 01328).

☆☆ This work was presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association in May 1986 in San Francisco, California, and published in abstract form in Gastroenterology 1986;90:1769.

PII: 0016-5085(87)90320-9

Gastroenterology
Volume 93, Issue 1 , Pages 98-105, July 1987

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