Journal article
Optimizing gallbladder stone lithotripsy: an international survey.
Abstract
Rates of stone clearance with extracorporeal shock wave cholecystolithotripsy (biliary lithotripsy [BL]) initially reported by European groups were encouraging. An American multicenter BL study (the Dornier National Biliary Lithotripsy Study [DNBLS]) did not reproduce these results. The BL treatment strategies and 6-month stone clearance rates of six leading European and Japanese centers were compared with those of DNBLS. All foreign centers …
Authors
Mori H; Malone DE; McGrath FP; Torres WE; de Gara C; Rawat B; Maher JH; Whelan JP; Orovan WL; Laufer I
Journal
Radiology, Vol. 184, No. 3, pp. 735–739
Publisher
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
Publication Date
September 1992
DOI
10.1148/radiology.184.3.1509058
ISSN
0033-8419