You could ask NASA. There is a story that they spent £1,000,000 analysing a 'meortite' only to discover it was a buffalo gallstone.
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Subject: Odd request for a Friday: ?gallstone
Hi all,
We have received a specimen from a GP patient of a "stone" passed rectally and the GP wants to know if it's a gallstone. Does anyone know where this sort of analysis might be done, and if there is any benefit in doing the analysis? My ('scuse the pun) gut feeling is that it would have take a long time to get a result and for little benefit, and that the patient should be referred for urgent USS to see if he is has any evidence of stones.
For what it's worth, the object is more an irregular discoid shape than a spheroid as you might expect a "stone" to be, it's black (which isn't the way gallstones look in pictures from Goggle), and very hard. It's about the size of a £2 coin (for anyone outside the UK that's about $3.20...), and the depth of maybe three or four of them.
Any suggestions gratefully received
Regards,
Iain
Dr Iain Woodrow,
Clinical Scientist,
Department of Clinical Biochemistry,
Pinderfields General Hospital,
Wakefield
WF1 4EE
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