Common bile duct stones: analysis of the videolaparoscopic surgical treatment

CONTEXT: About 9% of the Brazilian population has gallstones and the incidence increases significantly with aging. The choledocholithiasis is found around 15% of these patients, and a third to half of these cases presented as asymptomatic. Once the lithiasis in the common bile duct is characterized...

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Main Authors: Marco Aurelio Santo, Carlos Eduardo Domene, Daniel Riccioppo, Lian Barreira, Flavio Roberto Takeda, Henrique Walter Pinotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia (IBEPEGE) 2012-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-28032012000100008&lng=en&tlng=en