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Intrahepatic stones is considered a disease, but very rare in western people.
My coment: I prefer the Liver Flush than having parts of my liver cut away!

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search for the term "hepatolithiasis" and "intrahepatic stones" and you will have full of articles. Prevalence ist considered 1% in western people. Seems that the knwoledge never get's to the doctors out in the filed, who are treating people like you and me.
If the prevalence of intrahepatic stones it is really only 1% is another question, where I have my doubts....

hope it works with the links......
Elisabeth

Here the copy of the abstract:
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Hepatogastroenterology. 2003 Nov-Dec;50(54):1889-90.
Related Articles,
Liver resection for intrahepatic lithiasis. Report of a case.

Ramacciato G, Amodio PM, Mercantini P, D'Angelo F, Ziparo V.

Department of Surgery Pietro Valdoni University of Rome, La Sapienza, V.le del Policlinico 155, 00161 Rome, Italy. giovanni.ramacciato@uniroma1.it

Intrahepatic primary lithiasis is extremely rare in the Western world. The development of endoscopic technique permitted a conservative treatment for this disease. Because of the high recurrence rate after conservative treatment due to the remaining biliary stricture and the risk of incidental cholangiocarcinoma, we believe that hepatic resection is the treatment of choice of unilateral liver intrahepatic primary lithiasis. Herein we present a case affected with intrahepatic primary lithiasis localized into the left biliary system that successfully underwent left hepatic lobectomy.

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