EUS for suspected choledocholithiasis: Do benefits outweigh costs? A prospective, controlled study

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 510-518

  Buscarini, Elisabetta ^a   Tansini, Paolo ^b   Vallisa, Daniele ^b   Zambelli, Alessandro ^b   Buscarini, Luigi ^b  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT TUMOR; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0037384832     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.149     Document Type: Article

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