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The Italian multicenter study on Epidemiology and Prevention of Gallstone Disease (MICOL), which is currently under way in 18 centres on a study population of about 60 000 subjects, adopted Ultrasonography (U.S.) as the detection tool for stones in the gallbladder.
For the composition of the MICOL group see p. xi (list of contributors)
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Festi, D. et al. (1991). The Italian multicenter study on epidemiology and prevention of cholelithiasis (MICOL): ultrasonographic standardization. In: Capocaccia, L., Ricci, G., Angelico, F., Angelico, M., Attili, A.F., Lalloni, L. (eds) Recent Advances in the Epidemiology and Prevention of Gallstone Disease. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3744-7_5
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