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A CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

FREDERICK FITZHERBERT BOYCE, M.D.; ELIZABETH M. McFETRIDGE, M.A.

Arch Surg. 1935;31(1):105-136.

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The conception of disease of the biliary tract which includes in its compass involvements of the liver as well as of the gallbladder is of relatively recent origin. Indeed, it dates from the observation of Reimann of the Lankenau Clinic, in 1917, that hepatitis of some degree is a constant accompaniment of cholecystitis of any degree. That observation was confirmed experimentally by Graham, of St. Louis, in the following year, and since then notable work has been done on the association of disease of the liver with disease of the biliary tract, particularly by Heyd and Martin of New York and by Judd and Walters of the Mayo Clinic, while Riemann's and Graham's further studies have continued the promise of their early investigations. Today, even though all surgeons may not be willing to grant, as many claim, that hepatitis actually precedes cholecystitis in some, if not in all, cases, they . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW ORLEANS

From the Department of Surgery of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine and the surgical services of the Charity Hospital.

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