Pancreatic and biliary calculi: percutaneous treatment with tunable dye laser lithotripsy.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Percutaneous tunable dye laser lithotripsy was used in two patients to successfully fragment a 2-cm left hepatic duct calculus and a 5-mm main pancreatic duct calculus. Tunable dye laser lithotripsy may prove to be a more effective alternative to mechanical lithotripsy.
Medical subject headings
- Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic
- Calculi
- Cholelithiasis
- Laser Therapy
- Lithotripsy
- Lithotripsy, Laser
- Pancreatic Ducts