Extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy for bile duct calculi

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-13

  White, David M ^a   Correa, Roy J ^a   Gibbons, Robert P ^a   Ball, Terrence J ^a   Kozarek, Richard J ^a   Thirlby, Richard C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLELITHIASIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031974358     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(97)00234-1     Document Type: Article

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