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In the past many textbooks have indicated that the onset of symptoms and biliary complications are the rule for patients with gallstones, and therefore cholecystectomy has been widely performed all over the world also in subjects with asymptomatic disease.
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Sama, C. et al. (1991). Natural history of gallstone disease: the Sirmione study. 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_8
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