Cholelithiasis and teenage mothers.
Between 1980 and 1988, 23 female adolescents were hospitalized at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center for symptomatic cholelithiasis. The known risk factors for gallstone formation in adolescents were considered. In ten of the patients (43%), none of the risk factors was present. All ten patients, however, had in common a recent history of pregnancy. This finding is consistent with the current literature on the possible mechanism of gallstone formation during pregnancy.
Department of Pediatrics, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, New York 10456.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors