All-comers policy for laparoscopic exploration of the common bile duct

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1608-1612

  Thompson, M H ^a   Tranter, S E ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILE DUCT STONE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; POLICY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; T TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036443189     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.2002.02298.x     Document Type: Article

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