Kidney stones are hard objects made of minerals and salts in urine. The development of kidney stones occurs through the accumulation of minerals like calcium, along with oxalate or uric acid in urine.

Gallstones are hardened deposits of digestive fluid that can form in your gallbladder, an organ located on the right side of your abdomen that holds bile to be released into your small intestine.

Both gallstones and kidney stones can be very painful. Gallstones are deposits of digestive fluid, while kidney stones are crystals formed from chemicals in the urine. Both types of stones may pass.

The pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstone disease (CGD) has long been an enigma. During the first half of the last century, cholelithiasis was regarded to be due to gallbladder inflammatory disease, ...