Needle-knife fistulotomy versus needle-knife precut papillotomy for the treatment of common bile duct stones

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 334-339

  Mavrogiannis, Christos ^a   Liatsos, Christos ^b   Romanes, Andreas ^b   Petoumenos, Christos ^b   Nakos, Antonios ^b   Karvountzis, Gerasimos ^b  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREATITIS; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VATER PAPILLOTOMY;

EID: 0032871402     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ge.1999.v50.98593     Document Type: Article

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