The combination of stricture dilation, endoscopic needle aspiration, and biliary brushings significantly improves diagnostic yield from malignant bile duct strictures

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 587-594

  Farrell, Richard J ^a   Jain, Ajay K ^a   Brandwein, Steven L ^a   Wang, Helen ^a   Chuttani, Ram ^a   Pleskow, Douglas K ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT TUMOR; CATHETERIZATION; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CATHETERIZATION; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035511880     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.118715     Document Type: Article

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