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Gallbladder Diseases |
Cholelithiasis; Gallbladder; Gallbladder Disease |
In medicine, gallstones (choleliths) are crystalline bodies formed within the body by accretion or concretion of normal or abnormal bile components. Cholesterol stones are usually green, but are sometimes white or yellow in color and account for about 80 percent of gallstones. They are made primarily of cholesterol. Pigment stones are small, dark stones made of bilirubin and calcium salts that are found in bile. They account for the other 20 percent of gallstones. Risk factors for pigment s ...
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Gallbladder Diseases Organizations
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- NIDDK Weight-control Information Network
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/
- National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
- American Gastroenterological Association http://www.gastro.org/index.html
- American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://www.asge.org/
- HealthWorld http://www.healthy.net/
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