gallstone
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In this patient’s case, the stuck gallstone blocked the flow of bilirubin into the gastrointestinal tract.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
A number of health boards have had to postpone things like hip and knee replacements or some less urgent surgeries like gallstone or tonsil removal because they are so busy.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023
He was asked whether to remove a gallstone, if it was okay to begin chemotherapy, and whether this was a good time for a root canal.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
He was feeling sick, and was ultimately diagnosed with gallstone pancreatitis.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
It also "fortifies the stomach, comforts the bowels, reduces the gallstone to sand, the sand to mud, the mud to water—water which can be passed out of the system by the usual channels."
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
Doctors at a Los Angeles hospital were able to rule out gallstones, and on Tuesday, a representative for the “Goonies” star told The Times that they cracked the case, and Feldman is on the mend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Because the pearls are denser than surrounding tissue and resemble small stones, they can sometimes complicate diagnosis by mimicking kidney or gallstones.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
Patient leaflets on weight-loss injections state that gallstones are a "common" side effect, and in medical trials the injections also sometimes led to inflammation of the gallbladder.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Cases include electrocution, drowning, overdose, scurvy, sickle cell anemia, a nail in the chest, a fastball in the eye and gallstones, with all the personal drama one expects from a hospital show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Always before when pain from the gallstones had got too bad, she’d had an operation.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
