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The First Successful Endoscopic Retrograde Laser Lithotripsy of Common Bile Duct Stones in Man using a Pulsed Neodymium-YAG Laser
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1986
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Eus-guided Gallbladder DrainageBiliary TractBiliary CancerGastroenterologyCommon Bile DuctBiliary DisorderSurgeryLumen-filling CalculiInterventional EndoscopyMedicinePulsed Neodymium-yag LaserYag LaserRadiology
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.