title: [Problems inherent in the diagnosis and treatment of common bile duct calculi during video-laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Report on 700 cases, February 1991 to December 1997].
abstract: Conditions of predictivity seem to make treatment of common bile duct (CBD) stones during VLC more safe and adequate. IV cholangiography (or, nowadays, MRI and echoendoscopy) drive to a selective use of ERCP and cholangiography, help to reduce the incidence of residual lithiasis and give a "topographical map" of the CBD that can be useful, during VLC, in the search of the hilum structures, especially when the anatomical situation is not clear.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale Civile di Mondovì (CN).
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lucarini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ajraldi
mesh_terms: D014670:Ampulla of Vater; D002758:Cholangiography; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic; D001651:Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D042882:Gallstones / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery