Evaluating ERCP is important but difficult

Gut

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 287-289

  Cotton, P B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BYPASS SURGERY; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036070892     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.51.2.287     Document Type: Short Survey

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