Non-invasive treatment for retained common bile duct stones in patients with T tube in situ: Saline washout after intravenous ceruletide

Endoscopic sphincterotomy for retained c

Endoscopic sphincterotomy for retained common bile duct stones in patients with T-tube in situ in the early postoperative period

✍ D. P. O'Doherty; Mr J. P. Neoptolemos; D. L. Carr-Locke 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 401 KB 👁 2 views

We report on thirty-nine patients who underwent endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) and stone extraction for retained common bile duct calculi with a T-tube in situ. Sixteen of the patients had undergone unsuccessful attempts at removal by flushing or dissolution by cholesterol solvents. A total of76 sto