Cholangioscopy-guided lithotripsy vs. conventional therapy for complex bile duct stones: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Facundo Galetti Diogo Turiani Hourneaux de Moura Igor Braga Ribeiro Mateus Pereira Funari Martin Andres Coronel Cordero Amit H Sachde Vítor Ottoboni Brunaldi Tomazo Antonio Prince Franzini Wanderley Marques Bernardo Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura

Published in: Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery (2020)

For complex common bile duct stones, cholangioscopy-guided lithotripsy has a success rate that is similar to traditional ERCP techniques in terms of therapeutic success, adverse event rate and means fluoroscopy time. Conventional ERCP methods have a shorter mean procedure time.

Keyphrases

urinary tract
minimally invasive
emergency department