[The current status of the perendoscopic treatment of biliary lithiasis].
The role of therapeutic biliary endoscopy, for management of bile duct stones, continues to be defined. Actually the endoscopic management should be considered the procedure of choice for treatment of retained or recurrent stones of the main bile duct, gallstone pancreatitis an acute cholangitis. It's role in the era of laparoscopic cholecystectomy is evolving. Actually new techniques and accessories continue to be developed for treatment of bile duct stones. The problem of the difficult bile duct stones has essentially been solved by the development of a variety of lithotripsy techniques. This work focuses on new developments in the therapeutic biliary endoscopy for treatment of main bile duct stones.
De Palma
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Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli.
Sivero
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Di Matteo
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Belardo
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Angrisani
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L
Catanzano
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D016717:Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*
Lo stato attuale del trattamento perendoscopico della litiasi biliare.