Early Treatment of Acute Biliary Pancreatitis by Endoscopic Papillotomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 228-232

  Fan, Sheung Tat ^a   Lai, Edward ^b   Mok, Francis ^b   lo, Chung Mau ^b   Zheng, Shu Sen ^b   Wong, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLOTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT CALCULI; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MORBIDITY; PANCREATITIS; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VATER'S AMPULLA;

EID: 0027390450     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199301283280402     Document Type: Article

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