A rare common hepatic duct diverticulum causing fatal biliary obstruction and sepsis

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-198

  Flowers, Michael Brian ^a   Ho, Kang Jey ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT MALFORMATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; HUMAN; SEPSIS;

CHOLESTASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; DIVERTICULUM; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS;

EID: 0031905335     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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