Korean J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg.  2009 Sep;13(3):164-170.

Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration in Patients with Failed Endoscopic Stone Extraction

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Surgery, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea. Songis@cnuh.co.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE
Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LCBDE) has more advantages than conventional common bile duct surgery, but the use of this route for stone removal and biliary drainage remains controversial. The goal of this study was to investigate the usefulness of LCBDE in patients who had been failed in the endoscopic stone extraction.
METHODS
From November 2005 to August 2008, 52 patients underwent LCBDE due to failure of endoscopic stone extraction in Chungnam National University Hospital. Clinical data were collected and analyzed retrospectively.
RESULTS
Duodenal diverticulum (23 cases, 44.2%) was the most common cause in failure of endoscopic stone extraction and large common bile duct stone 12 cases (23.1%), previous upper gastrointestinal operation 10 cases (19.2%) were followed. Twenty four patients did not have preoperative biliary drainage, such as PTBD, ENBD, PTGBD. Forty-five patients (86.5%) of the 52 participating patients underwent LCBDE successfully, but 7 cases resulted in open surgery for the following reasons: 3 cases of severe intraabdominal adhesions, 3 cases of stone impaction in ampulla portion, and 1 case of a remnant stone. External biliary drainage was performed in 41 cases with T-tube (31 cases, 68.9%), PTBD (7 cases, 15.6%), ENBD (3 cases, 6.7%). The stone clearance of LCBDE was 95.6%. Remnant stone weredetected in 2 cases (4.4%) and removed with choledochoscope via external biliary drain. Postoperative complications happened in 5 cases (9.5%). Procedure related complications happened in 2 cases (3.8%).
CONCLUSION
LCBDE is useful technique in patients with failed endoscopic stone extraction, and biliary drainage may be necessary for detection and removal of latent remnant CBD stones.

Keyword

Common bile duct stone; Endoscopic stone extraction; Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration(LCBDE)

MeSH Terms

Common Bile Duct
Dioxolanes
Diverticulum
Drainage
Fluorocarbons
Humans
Postoperative Complications
Dioxolanes
Fluorocarbons
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