BMC Gastroenterology

official impact factor 2.47

Open Access Highly Access Research article

Predictors of gallstone composition in 1025 symptomatic gallstones from Northern Germany

Clemens Schafmayer1, Jürgen Hartleb2, Jürgen Tepel1, Stefan Albers3, Sandra Freitag4, Henry Völzke5, Stephan Buch3, Markus Seeger3, Birgit Timm6, Bernd Kremer1, Ulrich R Fölsch3, Fred Fändrich1, Michael Krawczak4,6, Stefan Schreiber6,7 and Jochen Hampe3*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 7, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

2 Laboratory Arndt and Partner, Lademannbogen 61–63, Hamburg, D-22339 Hamburg, Germany

3 Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Schittenhelmstr. 12, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

4 Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometry, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Brunswiker Str. 10, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

5 Department of Community Medicine, University of Greifswald, Walter-Rathenau-Str. 48, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany

6 POPGEN Biobank, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Schittenhelmstr. 12, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

7 Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Schittenhelmstr. 12, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

For all author emails, please log on.

BMC Gastroenterology 2006, 6:36 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-6-36

Published: 22 November 2006

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Examples of gallstones and their chemical composition. The figure provides examples of the analyzed gallstones and their chemical composition.

Format: PDF Size: 142KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data