This 35 year old lady was one of our staple cases: CBD clearance before undergoing cholecystectomy. The ultrasound report mentioned multiple CBD stones. Contrast injection on ERCP seemed to confirm the ultrasound report with a long line of negative shadows in the CBD (A: white arrow). Once we had done a papillotomy and proceeded to retrieve some of the stones with extraction balloon, we realized that we were dealing with one very large stone. It just kept coming and coming (B & C: white arrows. Blue arrow indicated the balloon). All that was left was a very wide open papilla (D: white arrow) and further balloon sweeps were clean. The calculus filled the duodenal lumen (E: white arrows). Reminds me of the menhirs from the quarry of a certain indomitable Gaul.
