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This study explored the association between CT attenuation of CBD stones and mechanical basket lithotripsy failure in a single-centre retrospective cohort. Methods: We retrospectively analysed 37 patients in whom a CBD stone was grasped with a basket catheter, could not be extracted directly, and underwent attempted intraductal mechanical crushing between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2023. Lithotripsy failure was defined as inability to fragment the grasped stone despite use of a dedicated crusher handle. Continuous variables were compared using the Mann\u2013Whitney U test and categorical variables using Fisher\u2019s exact test. CT attenuation analyses were restricted to CT-positive stones with measurable attenuation values (n = 27). Exploratory receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses were performed, and areas under the curve (AUCs) were accompanied by nonparametric bootstrap 95% confidence intervals (CIs) based on 10,000 resamples. No clinical CT attenuation threshold was proposed. Results: Mechanical lithotripsy succeeded in 31 patients and failed in 6. CT attenuation was measurable in 27 patients (21 successes and 6 failures). Among these patients, the failure group had higher mean CT attenuation than the success group (median 241 [IQR 217.8\u2013473.5] HU vs. 76 [67\u201388] HU; p = 0.00064) and higher maximum CT attenuation (386 [269.8\u2013589.3] HU vs. 123 [102\u2013133] HU; p = 0.00133). Exploratory ROC analysis showed an AUC of 0.968 (bootstrap 95% CI, 0.871\u20131.000) for mean CT attenuation and 0.940 (bootstrap 95% CI, 0.800\u20131.000) for maximum CT attenuation. These estimates were derived and evaluated in the same small dataset and were therefore considered exploratory. Conclusions: In this small, selected retrospective cohort, higher CT attenuation values were observed among the six patients with mechanical basket lithotripsy failure. 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