[The role of the sex in cooccurrence of selenium with other elements in gallstones].

The characteristic of occurrence selenium content in gallstones from smoking and no smoking people living in southern Poland is presented in the work. The subject of the research were gallstones, gained intra-operatively from 146 women (49 smoking, 97 no smoking women) and 24 men (11 smoking, 13 no smoking men). The content of selenium was determined using atomic emission spectroscopy with inductive couple plasma (ICP-AES). The influence of smoking to women and men describes the degree of elimination selenium from them organism by use of gallstones in detoxification process.