Preoperative assessment of cholangiocarcinoma: Meeting the challenge

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 615-617

  Garg, P K ^a   Tandon, R K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0032776518     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1746.1999.01927.x     Document Type: Editorial

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