Extrahepatic bile duct stricture and elevated CA 19-9: Malignant or benign?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-92

  Hyman, Joshua ^a   Wilczynski, Sharon P ^a   Schwarz, Roderich E ^a,b  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOOD GENERAL CONDITION; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; NEUROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STENT;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; CA-19-9 ANTIGEN; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0037274905     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000047961.88745.D2     Document Type: Article

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