Why is it necessary to retrieve small bile duct stones at cholecystectomy?

Surgical Laparoscopy and Endoscopy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-123

  Vracko, Jozef ^a,c   Wiechel, Karl Ludvig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Retention of microcalculi; Retrieval of bile duct stones; Small bile duct stones; Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT STONE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC DUCT; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; MALE; MANOMETRY; ODDI SPHINCTER; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033031530     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129689-199904000-00008     Document Type: Article

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