Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 49-52
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1988/307153
Treatment of Bile Duct Stones Endoscopically and by Extracorporeal Shock Waves
Division of Gastroenterology, epartments of Medicine, Urology and Radiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Received 18 February 1988; Accepted 2 May 1988
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Abstract
Endoscopic sphi ncterotomy was performed in a 68-year-old female patient with multiple stones in the common bile duct and cholangitis. Because the extraction of all the stones was not achieved extracorporeal lithotripsy was performed. Following fragmentation all the residual stones passed spontaneously and no complication occurred.