Biliary obstruction in metastatic disease: Thin-section helical CT findings

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-52

  Moon, S G ^a   Han, J K ^a   Kim, T K ^a   Kim, A Y ^a   Kim, T J ^a   Choi, B I ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bile duct obstruction; Computed tomography; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC DUCT; HUMAN; JEJUNUM; LUNG HILUS; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH; UTERUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037271012     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-001-0191-8     Document Type: Article

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