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Calcified gallstone fissures: the reversed Mercedes Benz sign.

S P Strijk.   

Abstract

This article describes the occurrence of an unusual radiating pattern of calcification in the center of large radiolucent gallstones. The radiographic findings are attributed to calcium deposition within the fissures of biliary calculi.

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Year:  1987        PMID: 3556975     DOI: 10.1007/BF01885127

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Gastrointest Radiol        ISSN: 0364-2356


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1.  Floating gallbladder calculi. Their incidence in a review of one thousand cholecystograms.

Authors:  C J ROMINGER; D W LOCKWOOD
Journal:  Am J Surg       Date:  1963-07       Impact factor: 2.565

2.  Fissures in biliary calculi; further observations.

Authors:  C L HINKEL
Journal:  Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med       Date:  1954-06

3.  VARIATION IN THE CHOLESTEROL, BILE PIGMENT AND CALCIUM SALTS CONTENTS OF GALLSTONES FORMED IN GALLBLADDER AND IN BILE DUCTS WITH THE DEGREE OF ASSOCIATED OBSTRUCTION.

Authors:  D B Phemister; H G Aronsohn; R Pepinsky
Journal:  Ann Surg       Date:  1939-02       Impact factor: 12.969

4.  The 'Jack Stone' or 'Mercedes Benz' sign--anew theory to explain the presence of gas within fissures in gallstones.

Authors:  F W Wright
Journal:  Clin Radiol       Date:  1977-07       Impact factor: 2.350

5.  The Mercedes-Benz sign: insight into the dynamics of formation and disappearance of gallstones.

Authors:  M A Meyers; N O'Donohue
Journal:  Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med       Date:  1973-09

6.  Appearance of gas-containing gallstones on sonography and computed tomography.

Authors:  C D Becker; P Vock
Journal:  Gastrointest Radiol       Date:  1984

7.  Floating stones in a nonopacified gallbladder: ultrasonographic sign of gas-containing gallstones.

Authors:  S P Strijk; C Boetes; G Rosenbusch
Journal:  Gastrointest Radiol       Date:  1981
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