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A Two-Step Method for Percutaneous Transhepatic Choledochoscopic Lithotomy
Published on: September 13, 2022
[Clinical features and operative treatment of ampullary choledocholithiasis]
Abstract:
The results of treatment of 72 patients with ampullary choledocholithiasis (16% of the total number of patients with choledocholithiasis) are presented. In 15 patients, bringing down a concrement was performed, in 3--its retrograde removal via the incision of the common bile duct with subsequent creation of choledochoduodenoanastomosis (CDA), in 24--endoscopic papillosphincterotomy (with subsequent cholecystectomy--in 6, with cholecystectomy and CDA creation--in 18), in 30--cholecystectomy with transduodenal papillosphincteroplasty. After the operation, 5 patients died.
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