[Diagnostic algorithm of biliary tract diseases in children].

Biliary tract (BT) diseases occupy one of the first places among the gastrointestinal diseases in children. The term "biliary tract" includes the gallbladder and intra-and extrahepatic bile ducts. The structure of biliary tract diseases had a significant increase in metabolic and inflammatory diseases, functional disorders.

[Essential microelements and gallstones in children].

The article presents a study of particular features of the essential microelements content in the hair, blood, bile and gallstones in infants with cholelithiasis. It was shown that this disease is accompanied by a lack of microelements, which appears as a lack of selenium, imbalance of zinc and accumulation of iron and copper in biological objects. In conjunction with other factors (vegetative dysfunction, comorbidities of the gastrointestinal tract and maldevelopment of the bile-excreting tract), the lack of microelements can promote the formation of gallstones in infants.