Obstructive jaundice and cholangitis due to choledocholithiasis: treatment by extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy.
Endoscopic shock-wave lithotripsy, although now the standard treatment of urolithiasis, has only recently been applied to cholelithiasis. The authors describe the case of an 88-year-old man, a high-risk patient with choledocholithiasis, in whom endoscopic stone extraction after sphincterotomy failed. Extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy was used for noninvasive stone fragmentation and the fragments were passed without complication.
Becker
C D
CD
Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Nagy
A G
AG
Fache
J S
JS
Gibney
R G
RG
Burhenne
H J
HJ
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000209:etiology*; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000209:etiology*; D042882:Gallstones / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008096:Lithotripsy; D008297:Male