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Question: During an ERCP, the gastroenterologist made numerous attempts with the catheter tip and with the guidewire, all of which failed. Then he used the standard Hydratome™, (or similar special sphinteratome) but over the course of an hour, the physician did not perform a single direct cannulation of either the common bile duct or pancreatic duct, nor did he insert the [...]
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