The role of ERCP in choledocholithiasis

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 120-132

  Lo, S K ^a   Chen, J ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BLEEDING; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CLINICAL TRIALS; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029991085     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002619900027     Document Type: Review

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