Bile Ducts and Bile Duct Stones

The advent of laparascopic cholecystectomy has represented a landmark breakthrough in the surgical treatment of gallstone disease. In this text experts demonstrate how to take this breakthrough to the net level - minimizing risks, reducing costs and improving prognoses.

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The advent of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has represented a landmark breakthrough in the surgical treatment of gallstone disease. Drs. Berci, Cuschieri, and other 21 experts demonstrate how to take this breakthrough to the next level...minimizing risks, reducing costs, and improving prognoses! Bile Ducts and Bile Duct Stones is not only the most up-to-date work of its kind, but also the most thoroughly researched. It is the product of years of intensive research and clinical experience from the most prominent leaders in the specialty. Features: * Discusses how to implement today's most effective laparoscopic approaches in biliary surgery...avoid pitfalls...and obtain superior results. * Demonstrates how fast digitized fluorocholangiography can be used to recognize and manage anatomical anomalies of the biliary system--found in 10% of all patients with gallstone disease--for decreased operative time and safer, more effective surgical procedures. * Helps readers to discover and immediately repair injuries that occur during primary surgery. * Shows how to remove both gallbladder and gallstones in a single session--greatly reducing both patient risk and expense.
* Illustrates evaluation and management with over 200 explicit photographs and figures (64 in full color).