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Case Reports
. 2016 Sep 14;3(4):e127.
doi: 10.14309/crj.2016.100. eCollection 2016 Aug.

Emergency Clipotripsy

Iris Lee  1 , Peter Darwin  1
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Case Reports

Emergency Clipotripsy

Iris Lee et al. ACG Case Rep J. .
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Plastic bread clip wedged onto duodenal fold.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Ex vivo fragmentation of plastic clip using lithotripsy basket. Metal wires are secured around an object and tightened until the object is fragmented.
Figure 3
Figure 3
LithoCrushV wires around the plastic clip.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Final fragments of plastic clip, ex vivo.
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