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Open cholecystectomy was the only treatment of symptomatic gallstone disease for 100 years, but in the 1980s there were numerous efforts to investigate alternative treatment approaches in an attempt to develop options to an open operation. We tried many of them as they were introduced.

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    George Berci

  2. Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Frederick L. Greene

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Berci, G., Greene, F.L. (2021). Commentaries. In: No Stones Left Unturned. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76845-4_18

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