Endoscopic removal of stone in patients with retained common bile duct stone and T-tube after cholecystectomy. Is it justified?
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ABSTRACT
Fifteen patients with retained common bile duct (CBD) stones and T-tube and twenty patients with CBD stones without T-tube had stones removed by endoscopic method. The result of endoscopic sphincterotomy, stone extraction, stone clearance and complication in patients with T-tube was similar to the results in patients without T-tube. The presence of T-tube did not create much difficulty in stone removal and the successful rate of 86.6 per cent (13/15) was satisfactory. Endoscopic removal of retained stones in patients with T-tube is recommended when retrieval via T-tube is not available since the later has fewer reported complications with very low mortality compared to the endoscopic technique.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Postoperative Complications
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Cholecystectomy
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Gallstones
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Drainage
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Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic
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Middle Aged
Language:
English
Year:
1992
Type:
Article
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