Peroral laser lithotripsy of difficult intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct stones: Laser effectiveness using an automatic stone-tissue discrimination system

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 468-473

  Jakobs, Ralf ^a   Maier, Matthias ^a   Kohler, Bernd ^a   Riemann, Jürgen F ^a  

^a Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029958806     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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