Cholangitis as a result of hydrophilic guidewire fracture

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 943-944

  Fry, Lucía C ^a   Linder, Jeffrey D ^a   Mönkemüller, Klaus E ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PIPERACILLIN; TAZOBACTAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; PANCREAS DUCT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036998274     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(02)70384-2     Document Type: Article

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