Is endoscopic treatment beneficial in patients with clinically suspicious of common bile duct stones but no obvious filling defects during the ERCP examination?

Sometimes, no definite filling defect could be found by cholangiogram (ERC) during the endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatiographic (ERCP) exam; even prior images had evidence of common bile duct stones (...

Source: BMC Gastroenterology - August 26, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Po-Hung Chiang, Kwok-Hung Lai, Tzung-Jiun Tsai, Kung-Hung Lin, Kai-Ming Wang, Sung-Shuo Kao, Wei-Chih Sun, Jin-Shiung Cheng, Ping-I Hsu, Wei-Lun Tsai, Wen-Chi Chen, Yun-Da Li, E-Ming Wang, Huey-Shyan Lin and Hoi-Hung Chan Source Type: research