Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration

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Abstract
IDENTIFYING PATIENTS with common bile duct stones (CBDS) remains a diagnostic as well as a therapeutic challenge. Classic symptom profiles have been ascribed to diseases of the biliary tree. However, there often is no clear distinction between symptoms due to gallbladder stones and those caused by CBDS. While surgeons accept that some patients will have persistent symptoms after cholecystectomy because those symptoms were erroneously ascribed to the gallbladder, most believe performing a cholecystectomy and removing CBDS will cure the patient.