Title | Gallstones [electronic resource] / edited by M. M. Fisher, C. A. Goresky, E. A. Shaffer, S. M. Strasberg |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1979 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7064-6 |
Descript | X, 443 p. online resource |
Perspectives on Gallstones -- The Composition of Gallstones -- Transepithelial Water Transport in the Biliary System -- Mechanisms of Solute Secretion into Bile -- The Apoprotein of the Bile Lipoprotein Complex (APO-BLC) -- The Enterohepatic Circulations of Bile Acids in Man: A Maturation of Concepts -- A Biophysical Approach to Cholesterol Transport from Tissues to Bile -- Physical Chemistry of Bile: Lipid Solubility -- Quasielastic Light Scattering Studies of Micelle Formation and Cholesterol Precipitation in Model Bile Solutions -- Biliary Cholesterol Supersaturation, Metastability and Micronucleation -- The Nucleation of Cholesterol Monohydrate Crystals in Model Bile Solutions -- The Role of Supersaturated Bile and Other Factors in the Genesis of Cholesterol Gallstones in Man -- Gallstone Formation in Animals -- The Role of the Gallbladder in Gallstone Formation -- Studies on the Pathogenesis of Cholesterol Gallstone Formation: Alterations of Bile Acid Transport and Liver Surface Membrane Lipid Structure by Estrogens -- Bile Acids: Stereospecific Side-Chain Hydroxylations in the Biosynthesis of Chenodeoxycholic Acid -- Effects of Diets and Drugs on Biliary Cholesterol Secretion in Man -- Recent Advances in the Synthesis, Metabolism, and Secretion of Biliary Phospholipids -- An Overview -- Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Cholelithiasis -- Cholescintigraphy -- Current Management of Uncomplicated Gallstones with Chenodeoxycholic Acid -- Ursodeoxycholic Acid for Gallstone Dissolution: The Emergence of a New Therapeutic Application of an Old Bile Acid -- Diet and Gallstones -- Endoscopic Treatment of Choledocholithiasis -- Pathogenesis and Management of Choledocholithiasis -- General Discussion -- Contributors