MIG Enhanced Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration (LCBDE) and Bile Duct Stone Extraction
- Opportunity to treat gall bladder and bile duct stones in a single procedure
- Only tool on the market that is adaptable for both transcystic and choledochotomy approaches
- Prevention of damage to fragile choledochoscope, reducing the incidence of scope damage from 50% to only 5% (result of regular MIG use at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell, NM)
- Facilitates use of several tools simultaneously (e.g. balloon catheter, irrigation catheter, lithotripter, and stone basket) with real-time video observation through the choledochoscope
- Ability to accomplish the procedure in an ambulatory setting, the most cost effective approach
- Makes LCBDE a more practical and safer alternative to ERCP (minimizes associated risk of pancreatitis and does not require injection of x-ray contrast medium)
- Compatible with available instrumentation
- Most cost effective procedure for choledocholithiasis
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Procedural Algorithm for LCBDE Using Multi-Channel Instrument Guide
LCBDE using the Multi-channel Instrument Guide
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