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Laparoscopic Bile Duct Exploration

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The majority of bile duct stones are secondary bile duct stones (Chap. 3) that arise in the gallbladder and migrate down the cystic duct. Depending on geographic variation in this incidence of secondary duct stones, trans-cystic exploration successfully clears the bile duct (CBD) in 60–70% of patients; the remainder can be removed by choledochotomy or post-operative endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

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    Leslie Nathanson

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  1. Professor of Surgery, Nepean Clinical School University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Michael R. Cox

  2. Discipline of Surgery, The Whiteley-Martin Research Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Guy D. Eslick

  3. Divisional Director of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Robert Padbury

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Nathanson, L. (2018). Laparoscopic Bile Duct Exploration. In: Cox, M., Eslick, G., Padbury, R. (eds) The Management of Gallstone Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63884-3_20

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