
82 year-old woman with chronic biliary obstruction caused by two large common
bile duct stones. The distal common duct had spontaneously drained via a fistula
across the ampullary wall and into the duodenum.
LEFT: The ampulla with cannula in place. Contrast injected
through the cannula flows back into the duodenum through the fistula tract
located on the side wall of the ampulla.
RIGHT: After papillotomy, the larger of the two common duct
stones being extracted into the duodenum using the papillotome.
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