Fragmentation of bile duct stones by ext
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Tilman Sauerbruch; Joseph Holl; Michael Sackmann; Gustav Paumgartner
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Article
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1992
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Over 5 yr, 103 elderly patients (mean age = 70 yr) with bile duct stones (mainly not amenable to endoscopic extraction) underwent adjuvant extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy using a first-generation kidney lithotripter. Disintegration of stones was achieved after a mean of 1.4 sessions in 92% of