Successful use of an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor as adjunctive therapy in the management of refractory bile leak complicating laparoscopic cholecystectomy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2602-2603

  Rabine, John ^b   Jones, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MEVINOLIN; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILOMA; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032430415     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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