A suction device for evacuation of gallbladder stones.
Interventional radiologists are being asked more frequently to evacuate stones from the gallbladder. In order to facilitate such evacuation in patients with a large number of small gallbladder stones, a readily available medical suction machine was adapted for this purpose, and we describe here the adaptation and its successful use in six patients.
D002767:Cholecystostomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D013396:Suction / Q000295:instrumentation*