title: Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided common bile duct stone removal.
abstract: Endoscopic ultrasonography has become an important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in endoscopy units. It has a great impact on biliary and pancreatic disease management and its application to retrograde cholangiopancreatography is appealing, although very challenging with current devices. In this article we describe our initial experience with this technique.
authors.affiliation: Everson LA Artifon, Decio S Couto Jr, Pancreatic and Biliary Unit, Ana Costa Hospital, São Paulo 11075-400, Brazil.
authors.forename: Everson La
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Artifon
authors.forename: Decio S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Couto
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goñi