During the past 10 years case reports of cholelithiasis in childhood and adolescence have appeared fairly regularly and 24 cases under the age of 14 have been described in the English literature during this period. Though stated as being 'infrequent in early life' (Rapoport, 1954), most paediatricians must occasionally have found gall bladder disease to be the cause of hitherto unexplained abdo...