Management of acute cholangitis

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-29

  Gouma, Dirk J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute cholangitis; Common bile duct stones; Endoscopic sphincterotomy; Laparoscopic CBD exploration

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; BLADDER STONE; BYPASS SURGERY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DUODENUM PERFORATION; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGITIS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; STENTS;

EID: 0037972662     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071336     Document Type: Review

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