Digital cholangioscopy-assisted gallbladder drainage: seeing is accessing
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The Successful Treatment of Chronic Cholecystitis with SpyGlass Cholangioscopy-Assisted Gallbladder Drainage and Irrigation through Self-Expandable Metal Stents
A 34-year-old female with a history of advanced pulmonary sarcoidosis and right-sided heart failure presented with chronic, postprandial right upper quadrant pain, and weight loss. Endoscopic biliary drainage was deemed to be the most appropriate therapeutic option for her chronic cholecystitis. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography utilizing the SpyGlass cholangioscopy system allowed ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1392655