Pancreatic and biliary calculi: percutaneous treatment with tunable dye laser lithotripsy.
Percutaneous tunable dye laser lithotripsy was used in two patients to successfully fragment a 2-cm left hepatic duct calculus and a 5-mm main pancreatic duct calculus. Tunable dye laser lithotripsy may prove to be a more effective alternative to mechanical lithotripsy.
Feldman
R K
RK
Department of Radiology, Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle, WA 98111.
Freeny
P C
PC
Kozarek
R A
RA
D000368:Aged; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic; D002137:Calculi / Q000628:therapy*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008096:Lithotripsy / Q000379:methods*; D017602:Lithotripsy, Laser; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010183:Pancreatic Ducts