Balloon sphincteroplasty and transpapillary elimination of bile duct stones: 10 years' experience.

Objective: The usual way for interventional radiology to treat stones in the bile duct involves their extraction with Dormia baskets. The technique of dilating the sphincter with a balloon and the transpapillary elimination of the stones has only sporadically been reported in the literature. In this article, we describe our experience with this technique.