Recurrent 'idiopathic' acute pancreatitis: Should a laparoscopic cholecystectomy be the first procedure of choice?

Pancreas

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 329-334

  Steinberg, William M ^a   Barkin, Jamie ^a   Bradley III, Edward L ^a   DiMagno, Eugene ^a   Layer, Peter ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PANCREAS ENZYME; PANCRELIPASE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DECISION MAKING; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SPHINCTEROTOMY; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BILE; CHEMISTRY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; MANOMETRY; ODDI SPHINCTER; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BILE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MANOMETRY; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; RECURRENCE; SPHINCTER OF ODDI;

EID: 0030278726     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-199611000-00001     Document Type: Article

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