Article date: November 1983
By: MJ Cooper, RC Williamson, in Volume 16, Issue 5, pages 570-572
Following oral administration of 1.5 g of sodium salicylate or acetylsalicylate to five patients with indwelling T‐tubes there was an approximately 50% increase in bile flow. The increase appeared to be in the bile‐acid independent fraction of canalicular flow and was not accompanied by a change in lithogenicity. Neither agent would be of use in the medical treatment of cholesterol gallstones.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1983.tb02219.x
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