[Combination of cholelithiasis and duodenal ulcer: general nature of pathogenetic mechanisms].
Studies have shown that patients with cholelithiasis include a large group of people having associated duodenal ulcer as well. Duodenal ulcer also precedes cholelithiasis quite often (the ratio being 4:1), which makes it possible to consider duodenal ulcer as one of the risk factors for the duodenal ulcer development.