Which test to replace diagnostic ERCP - MRCP or EUS?

Endoscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 426-428

  Kay, C L ^a  

^a BRADFORD ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BLEEDING; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PACEMAKER; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT CARE; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLELITHIASIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0038706334     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-38783     Document Type: Review

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