Full Description
This volume is a single resource highlighting multidisciplinary options available to clinicians for the management of common bile duct stones. The text highlights management, diagnosis, treatment options, and complications from the perspective of surgeons, gastroenterologists, and interventional radiologists, providing a truly multidisciplinary approach to treatment of these patients. By providing the scope of the problem to clinicians, the text increases awareness such that testing or referral to the most appropriate specialist (whether it be a gastroenterologist, surgeon or radiologist) can be initiated.
Providing surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists alike access to the most current treatment paradigms in their field, Multidisciplinary Management of Common Bile Duct Stones empowers healthcare providers with interdisciplinary knowledge and options available to patients in management of their common bile duct stones.
Contents
Historical Perspective and Treatments for Common Bile Duct Stones.- Common Bile Duct Stones: Health Care Problem and Incidence.- Bile Duct Stones: Making the Radiologic Diagnosis.- Making the Diagnosis: Gastroenterology.- Making the Diagnosis: Surgery; a Rational Approach to the Patient with Suspected CBD Stones.- Percutaneous Biliary Access: Considerations, Techniques, and Complications.- Special Considerations for the Gastroenterologist.- Special Considerations for the Surgeon.- Percutaneous Methods of Common Bile Duct Stone Retrieval.- Gastroenterologic Treatment and Outcomes.- Surgical Treatment and Outcomes.- Surgical Procedures to Prevent Recurrence.- Management of Medical Complications of Gallstone Disease.- Management of Surgical Complications.- Special Considerations: Management of Common Bile Duct Stones in the Bariatric Patient.- Management of Choledocholithiasis in the Cirrhotic Patient.- Nonprocedural Management of Common Bile Duct Stones.
