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WITH THE REPORT OF AN UNUSUAL CASE WITH CHOLANGEITIS

ARTHUR A. HOLBROOK, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1934;47(4):836-849.

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Disease of the gallbladder in children has received little attention from the medical profession at large. Textbooks tend to ignore the subject or to dismiss it with curt remarks.¹ Yet the literature presents about 300 of these cases. In 1898 Mendel² analyzed 16 cases of cholelithiasis observed by him in children under 8 years of age. The next year Still³ recorded 20 cases of biliary calculus in childhood appearing in the literature from the time of Gibson in 1722. He added 3 more cases in which the diagnosis was proved. During the following two decades only isolated case studies appeared. In 1920 Reid and Montgomery⁴ collected 18 cases of typhoid fever in children under 15 years of age who had died or had been operated on because of disease of the gallbladder. In 1923 Kellogg⁵ presented in tabular form 64 cases recorded in a two hundred year period. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Children's Medical Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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