Kessler M J
Caribbean Primate Research Center, University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine.
Am J Primatol. 1982;2(3):291-294. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350020306.
Severe gallstone disease was found at necropsy in a 24-year-old female monkey which died of pyelonephritis. Reports of spontaneous cholelithiasis in rhesus monkeys are rare. This is the first description of gallstone disease in a non-human primate caused by calcium bilirubinate choleliths.