title: Pancreatic and biliary calculi: percutaneous treatment with tunable dye laser lithotripsy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle, WA 98111.
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Feldman
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Freeny
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Kozarek
mesh_terms: 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