Pancreatic-biliary ascariasis: Experience of 300 cases

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 12 SUPPL., 1997, Pages 2264-2267

  Sandouk, Fayez ^b   Haffar, Samir ^b   Zada, Mazen M ^b   Graham, David Y ^b   Anand, Bhupinderjit S ^a  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPULLA OF VATER; ASCARIASIS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; VOMITING;

EID: 0030817784     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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