The paradigm for clearing the bile duct needs to shift,” said Eric Pauli, MD, an associate professor of surgery at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in Hershey, Pa.
The standard of care for treating patients with choledocholithiasis and gallbladder in situ combines endoscopic and surgical interventions, typically endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to extract bile duct stones followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy to remove the gallbladder.
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