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A notable discovery in the last century by Von Recklinghausen that 90 % of women having gallstones have been gravid at least once, and the subsequent findings by Courvoisier in autopsy studies that three times as many women have gallstones as men hinted at the possibility of pregnancy being one of the major factors in the development of cholelithiasis [1].

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