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The natural history of symptomatic and asymptomatic gallstones
Introduction The aim of this chapter is to describe established and novel findings on the natural history of gallstones. Gallstones have been a scourge of humankind for millennia. Each year surgeons perform over 700,000 cholecystectomies in the United States alone,…