LITHOTOMY OF INTRAHEPATIC AND CHOLEDOCHAL STONES WITH YAG LASER

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 156  (4) , 485-488
Abstract
Eight patients with intrahepatic bile duct stones and 3 with choledochal stones were treated by YAG [yttrium-aluminum-garnet] laser using a choledochofiberscope. A choledochoscope was inserted through a T-tube fistula in 5 patients or a percutaneous transhepatic cholangiodrainage fistula in 6 patients. In 1 patient, right partial lobectomy of the liver was performed after most of the stones were withdrawn, since some stones in the extremely narrow bile duct were not removed. Most of the intrahepatic bile duct stones and choledochal stones will be withdrawn using the YAG laser and choledochofiberscope, when they were bilirubin stones.