The extraction of difficult bile duct stones in a patient with surgically altered anatomy using a novel retrieval basket and a short-type single-balloon enteroscopy

Masanari Sekine; Taku Mizutani; Ryo Hashimoto; Goya Sasaki; Azumi Sato; Shu Kojima; Keita Matsumoto; Takeshi Uehara; Takeharu Asano; Hirosato Mashima

doi:10.1002/jhbp.1427

The extraction of difficult bile duct stones in a patient with surgically altered anatomy using a novel retrieval basket and a short-type single-balloon enteroscopy

J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci. 2024 Apr 9;31(6):e34-e35. doi: 10.1002/jhbp.1427. Online ahead of print.

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Affiliation

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.

Abstract

Sekine and colleagues report successful stone extraction using a novel retrieval basket and a short‐type single‐balloon enteroscope in a patient with surgically altered anatomy. Its unique shape makes the basket with a 0.018‐inch guidewire the first choice for removal of small bile duct stones in patients with surgically altered anatomy.

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Case Reports