Bile acid enteroliths; with an account of a recent case

Abstract

Two enteroliths contained over 90% of bile acids (90% choleic acid, 10% cholic acid.) Choleic acid is the bile acid most likely to be precipitated at the reaction normally found at the site of formation of such enteroliths. This may explain why all the bile acid enteroliths so far reported, except one, consist mainly of choleic acid.