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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-3-12
pubmed:abstractText
The endoscopic treatment of calculi of the main biliary duct (CMBD) has been performed in France since 1974. One of us (Cl. L.) published his results with a series of 323 patients in 1979. The stones were extracted in 86.5% of all cases, the failures being caused by the impossibility to perform endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) in 4.3% of cases or to extract the stones in 9.2%. Since that date, a number of factors helped improving the effectiveness of endoscopic treatment: the increasing experience of the surgeons, the improvement of endoscopes, especially more appropriate optics (wide angle and 15 degrees retrograde vision) and the endoscopic approach of the biliary tract, the use of intraoperative radiology allowing access to the biliary tract in all cases, and the development of extra- and intracorporeal lithotrity solving the problem of stones that cannot be extracted by conventional means. This work is aimed at demonstrating the current possibilities of the endoscopic treatment of lithiasis of the CMBD in a Hospital using plain radiology and lithotrity.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0001-4001
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
116
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
251-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
[Endoscopic treatment of common bile duct calculi].
pubmed:affiliation
Centre Médico-Chirurgical de l'Alma, Paris.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract