The First Successful Endoscopic Retrograde Laser Lithotripsy of Common Bile Duct Stones in Man using a Pulsed Neodymium-YAG Laser

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.