If you go back in time (surely you remember Brian), cholesterol standards
used to be prepared from ether extract of gallstones.
Gallstone analysis used to be stock-in-trade until autoanalysers took over
the world. There is a method involving ether extraction of ground-up
gallstones in Henry et al after Oser BL (1965) (Henry et al , Clinical
Chemistry Principles & Technics, page 1581 in 2nd edition)
There's nothing costs more than a good education than the lack of one !
with best wishes
Richard
Richard Mainwaring-Burton
Consultant Biochemist
Queen Mary's Hospital
Sidcup, Kent
DA14 6LT
020-8308-3084
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Shine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 July 2003 15:28
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Subject: Gallstones
One of our cellular pathologists came across a pale, almost
transparent, quartz-like stone in a gallbladder the other day. It
doesn't look like a bile pigment stone, but it could be cholesterol, I
suppose.
Does anyone have any ideas where I could send it to have it analysed?
Best wishes,
Brian Shine
Consultant Chemical Pathologist
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford OX3 9DU
Telephone 01865 220475
Fax 01865 220348
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