Re: colour of gallstones

Cholesterol stones are yellow-white. I am quite conversant with the products of haemoglobin breakdown! It is a misconception that pigment stones should be green and orange - since they are not in solution. Do you know what colour the skin of a person with long-standing biliary obstruction goes BTW? Someone with jaundice looks yellow not orange also.

Perhaps you can consider some questions.

Why would someone with a normal biliary tree anatomy have a problem with biliary stones?

Do any of the people who are said to have hepatic stones have the serum markers for biliary obstruction?

Do any of the people who are said to have hepatic stones have the signs and symptoms of biliary obstruction?

Are you conversant with HIDA scans? How do the scan results in cholecystitis affect your understanding of the process of a liver flush?

How do you correlate the pathophysiology and symptomatology of primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing Cholangitis and autoimmune Cholangitis with the people said to have hepatc stones?


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