GALL STONES : Types

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  • Cholesterol stones (20%):


  1. Solitary or multiple.

  2. High cholesterol states, pregnancy, DM, Pill.

  3. Strawberry Gall Bladder- is cholesterosis of GB with mucosa studded with sub-mucosa cholesterol.


    • Bile pigment stones (5%):


  1. Small, black, irregular, multiple and gritty.

  2. Haemolytic anaemias.


    • Mixed stones (75%)


  1. Multiple.

  2. Generations of stones

  3. Due to precipitation of cholesterol.


Category: Surgery Notes

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