Impacted stone retrieval basket during ERCP

(A) These fluoroscopic images taken during ERCP demonstrate an impacted Dormia basket within a narrow distal common bile duct (arrow).

(B) Mechanical lithotripsy (arrow) was used to fragment the stone and then successfully remove the basket.

ERCP: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

Courtesy of Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Policlinico Gemelli Foundation IRCCS Catholic University – Rome, Italy.

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