Choledocholithiasis at the hepatic confluence mimicking a hilar cholangiocarcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 2339-2343

  Läuffer, Jörg M ^c   Baer, Hans U ^b   Schajor, Michael ^c   Halter, Fred ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Bile duct tumors; Choledocholithiasis; Jaundice; Klatskin tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HEPATIC DUCT; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0345355220     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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