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Case Report and Review

EDWARD A. DAINKO, M.D.; ALLEN F. BOWYER, M.D.; FRANK R. JOHNSON, M.D.; EDWARD J. BEATTIE, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1963;86(2):203-208.

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In most of the recorded cases of gall stones in children no mention is made of the associated condition of sickle cell anemia. Its co-existence may have been present in numerous instances. Gibson, in 1722, first recorded a case of gall stones found at autopsy in a 12-year-old boy.⁵ Herrick⁷ has received credit for the first description of sickle cell anemia.

Ulin, Nosal, and Martin,¹⁸ Glenn and Hill⁶ and Potter¹⁴ have extensively reviewed cholelithiasis and cholecystitis in the child. The 2 former excluded all congenital hemolytic anemias. Potter made no mention of sickle cell anemia associated with any of the 306 cases of cholelithiasis from all causes in the child. Thus, gall stones in the Pediatric age group are rare. Walters, according to Ulin, et al.,¹⁸ reported a total incidence of cholelithiasis in children of 1.3 per 1,000 adult cases at the Mayo Clinic. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, affiliated with the University of Illinois, College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 30, 1962.

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