[Distinctive features and methods of use of the choledochoscope with the fiber light guide KhVS-1]. / Osobennosti ustroistva i metodika primeneniia kholedokhoskopa s volokonnym svetovodom KhVS-1

In current surgical practice there are used rigid and flexible choledochoscopes with a glass fibre. The choledochoscope provided with a glass fibre, model XBC-1, designed by the All-Union Research Institute of Instrument Making, is a highly efficient apparatus that enables it to carry out detailed visual examinations of the major bile ducts. The procedure of examining the bile ducts with the new model of the choledochoscope is safe for the patient and is within an easy grasp of any surgeon familiar with the technique of surgery of the biliary tract.