1. Cholangioscopy-guided holmium laser lithotripsy of a stone trapped in a mechanical lithotripter
- Author
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Jorge Canena, Luis Felipe Dias Lopes, David Martínez-Ares, Sílvia Giestas, Diogo Libânio, and Universidade do Minho
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Common bile duct ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Medicina Básica [Ciências Médicas] ,Gastroenterology ,Holmium laser ,Lithotripsy ,Litotricia ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Colangiografia ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Ciências Médicas::Medicina Básica ,medicine ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Radiology ,business ,Cholangiography - Abstract
Large common bile duct (CBD) stones can be removed with mechanical lithotripsy, although over-the-basket techniques such as electrohydraulic or pulsed dye laser lithotripsy can be necessary in cases of stone impaction.1 We report the case of a 42-year-old woman with a 30-mm stone in the CBD in whom mechanical lithotripsy was attempted after wide sphincterotomy. However, during the procedure, a rupture occurred in the traction wire of the basket, next to the handle. Emergency lithotripsy (EL) with use of an external-type system was immediately attempted, but wire fracture occurred again (2 times), turning its length shorter than the metallic sheath of the EL and rendering EL impossible, (undefined), info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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- 2018