1. Features of gallstones in adult sickle cell patients
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Daudon, Michel, Lionnet, François, Loi, Valéria, Amiot, Xavier, Boury, Antoine, Haymann, Jean-Philippe, and Bazin, Dominique
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Sickle cell disease ,Gallstones ,FTIR spectroscopy ,FE-SEM ,Calcium bilirubinates ,Calcium phosphates ,Biochemistry ,QD415-436 ,Physical and theoretical chemistry ,QD450-801 ,Mathematics ,QA1-939 - Abstract
Morpho-constitutional analysis of gallstones revealed significant differences between sickle cell patients and other gallbladder stone formers. As expected, pigment stones, mainly composed of calcium bilirubinates, were the most common type of stones in the former (74.7 versus 22.5%, $p
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- 2022
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