Gallbladder Disease in Children: A 20-year Single-centre Experience.

CONCLUSIONS: Number of pediatric cholecystectomies has significantly increased in the last 20 years, as well as average BMI of the observed population This probably signifies a correlation between rising obesity rates and increase in frequency of symptomatic cholelithiasis in children. PMID: 30898989 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Indian Pediatrics - March 18, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pogorelić Z, Aralica M, Jukić M, Žitko V, Despot R, Jurić I Tags: Indian Pediatr Source Type: research