Santorini's duct - Risk factor for acute pancreatitis or protective morphologic variant? Experiments in rabbits

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 569-573

  Arendt, Thomas ^a   Stoffregen, Clemens ^a   Kloehn, Sievert ^a   Mönig, Heiner ^a   Nizze, Horst ^b   Fölsch, Ulrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Bile; Escherichia coli; Rabbits; Santorini's duct

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLAMP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC DUCT; EDEMA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS DUCT STENOSIS; PANCREAS JUICE; PANCREAS STONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RISK FACTOR; VATER PAPILLA;

EID: 0030906709     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-199706000-00004     Document Type: Article

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