Desrame J, Klotz F
Institut de Médecine Tropicale du Service de Santé des Armées Le Pharo, Marseille.
Med Trop (Mars). 1993 Jul-Sep;53(3):385-9.
Cholelithiasis in homozygous sickle cell disease is a common complication. Mean prevalence rate recorded is 27.4% with a greater frequency in the second part of life. It is a peculiar lithiasis, made of pigmentary stones either purs or duals, caused by hypersaturation of indirect bilirubin. Systematic detection of such a lithiasis by echography is part of monitoring homozygous drepanocytic.