Endoscopic stenting of gallbladder for symptomatic cholelithiasis in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 595-598

  Shrestha, Roshan ^a,b   Bilir, Bahri M ^a   Everson, Gregory T ^a   Steinberg, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 0029862638     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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