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Laparoscopic Biliary Ultrasound

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Surgeon perceptual errors are the leading root cause of biliary injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Laparoscopic biliary ultrasonography utilization remains low, despite demonstrable benefits, due to misperceptions of a difficult surgeon learning curve. This chapter will demonstrate the technique for laparoscopic biliary ultrasound.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Steven P. Bowers

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  1. Chief of HPB - Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL, USA

    Horacio J. Asbun

  2. Assistant Professor of Surgery, Winship Cancer Institute, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Mihir M. Shah

  3. Associate Professor of Surgery, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Eugene P. Ceppa

  4. Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Edward D. Auyang

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Bowers, S.P. (2020). Laparoscopic Biliary Ultrasound. In: Asbun, H., Shah, M., Ceppa, E., Auyang, E. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Biliary Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13276-7_10

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