Open AccessModified percutaneous transhepatic papillary balloon dilation for patients with refractory hepatolithiasis
Author(s) -
Bin Liu,
Pikun Cao,
Yongzheng Wang,
Wujie Wang,
Shilin Tian,
Yancu Hertzanu,
Yuliang Li
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v26.i27.3929
Subject(s) - hepatolithiasis , medicine , balloon dilation , refractory (planetary science) , percutaneous , dilation (metric space) , balloon , radiology , lithotripsy , surgery , resection , hepatectomy , mathematics , combinatorics , astrobiology , physics
Some patients with hepatolithiasis cannot tolerate surgery due to severe cardiac or pulmonary comorbidities, or cannot be endoscopically treated because of altered gastrointestinal anatomies.