[Study of crystalline structures of the bile in the diagnosis of cholelithiasis].

Under analysis were results of polarization microscopy of bile in 111 patients with cholelithiasis, 8 patients with acalculous cholecystitis and 8 practically healthy people. It was found that in healthy people there are no crystalline structures in the initial state of bile. The composition of bile from patients with cholelithiasis is characterized by the presence of three types of crystals: solid crystals of cholesterol monohydrate, calcium bilirubinate granules and calcium carbonate microspherolites. Polarization microscopy of bile may be used as a sufficiently simple method of diagnostics of stone disease.