Gallstone pancreatitis: When is endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography truly necessary?

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-132

  Kraft, Matthias ^b   Lerch, Markus M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; BED REST; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FLUID THERAPY; GALLSTONE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREAS SURGERY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STENT; VATER PAPILLOTOMY; APACHE; CHOLELITHIASIS; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MORTALITY; PANCREATITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

APACHE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLELITHIASIS; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC;

EID: 0037968391     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-003-0081-z     Document Type: Review

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