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FERN-LIKE or coralline arborization patterns have been observed in human bile allowed to desiccate and examined microscopically. Blumenkrantz and Kohan1 call this phenomenon ‘rhythmic crystallization’, and suggest a relationship between paucity of arborization patterns and the presence of biliary lithiasis. Their work was carried out on bile obtained by duodenal intubation.
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DEPALMA, R., LEVEY, S. Arborization Patterns in Human Bile. Nature 207, 637–638 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207637a0
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