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Therapeutic Interventions in Patients with Gallbladder Stones: The Internist’s View

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The past two decades have witnessed not only the advance of a number of nonsurgical treatments of gallstone disease but also a considerable increase in our knowledge about the natural history of gallstone disease. As a result, we must now ask the following questions: (a) for which patients with gallbladder stones are therapeutic interventions necessary, and (b) which therapeutic modalities can be recommended?

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  1. Department of Medicine II, Klinikum Großhadern, University of Munich, Marchioninistraße 15, D-8000, Munich 70, Germany

    G. Paumgartner

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  1. Abteilung Innere Medizin II, Gastroenterologie und Ernährungswissenschaften, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Robert-Koch-Straße 8, D-7900, Ulm, Germany

    W. Swobodnik  & H. Ditschuneit  & 

  2. Division of Gastroenterology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 4.106 McCullough, G-64, 77550, Galveston, TX, USA

    R. D. Soloway

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Paumgartner, G. (1990). Therapeutic Interventions in Patients with Gallbladder Stones: The Internist’s View. In: Swobodnik, W., Soloway, R.D., Ditschuneit, H. (eds) Gallstone Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74619-2_11

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