Patients at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital recovered completely after conservative and endoscopic treatment, and no procedure-related mortality was shown.
In the study, 172 patients had a follow-up duration of more than six months and 25 of these patients had recurrent common bile duct stones.
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