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J. RALPH MACFARLANE, MD; FRANK GLENN, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1964;88(6):1003-1009.

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The migration of biliary calculi without apparent cause and even their disappearance have been the subject of sporadic reports over the past 250 years. Intestinal obstruction from a large gallstone passed into the bowel through a cholecystoenteric fistula was a well-known phenomenon. Many of the calculi recovered from the stool in the older reports probably resulted from internal fistulae.^1,2

Although many of these older cases lack operative or autopsy evidence that fistulae were absent, in a few the clinical course is suggestive that the calculi followed the biliary ducts into the intestine. Harley³ described a woman who passed a total of 12 stones "the size of large peas, the average weight 0.2 grammes." The passage of the first was attended by dark urine and clay-colored stools as well as jaundice, whereas those subsequently passed only produced jaundice and "high-coloured urine."

Martin⁴ described a 65-year-old female "suffering for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Surgery, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 13, 1964.

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