Surgical versus endoscopic treatment of bile duct stones

Dasari, B.; Jin Tan, Chuan; Selvan Gurusamy, Kurinchi; Martín, David; Kirk, G.; McKie, Lloyd; Diamond, Tom; Taylor, Mark

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd003327.pub4

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Surgical versus endoscopic treatment of bile duct stones

Published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews • Dec 12, 2013

Authors:

B. Dasari

Chuan Jin Tan

Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Between 10% to 18% of people undergoing cholecystectomy for gallstones have common bile duct stones. Treatment of the bile duct stones can be conducted as open cholecystectomy plus open common bile duct exploration or laparoscopic cholecystectomy plus laparoscopic common bile duct explor...

Subject

Medicine

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography

Gallstones

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