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SUCCESSFUL RETRIEVAL OF AN IMPACTED MECHANICAL LITHOTRIPSY BASKET: A CASE REPORT
Author(s) -
Ryozawa Shomei,
Iwano Hirotoshi,
Taba Kumiko,
Senyo Manabu,
Sakaida Isao
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
digestive endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.5
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1443-1661
pISSN - 0915-5635
DOI - 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2010.00963.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lithotripsy , medline , general surgery , surgery , political science , law
We report the successful retrieval of an impacted mechanical lithotripsy basket. In a patient with two large common bile duct stones, the basket with the entrapped stone was impacted within the mid‐common bile duct. We then attempted to use another mechanical lithotripter; however the central wire of the basket fractured at the handle portion. Grasping a few wires of the impacted basket with rat‐tooth forceps allowed the wires of the basket to slip away from the stone. The present report describes the safe and effective use of rat‐tooth forceps in the management of an impacted lithotripter basket.