Abstract
More than 500,000 cholecystectomies are performed annually. Extracorporeal Shockwave lithotripsy and endoscopic laser lithotripsy have been used for the management of common bile duct calculi, which complicate 10% of cases. We report the first successful clinical application of the Ho:YAG laser to a complex biliary calculus case.
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