The First Successful Endoscopic Retrograde Laser Lithotripsy of Common Bile Duct Stones in Man using a Pulsed Neodymium-YAG Laser
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Endoscopy
- Vol. 18 (04) , 144-145
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2007-1018356
Abstract
Lumen-filling calculi in the common bile duct are frequently inaccessible to endoscopic treatment. With the aid of a flash lamp pulsed Nd:YAG laser, endoscopic retrograde lithotripsy of such calculi has now been successfully accomplished for the first time in man.Keywords
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