Selective MRCP and CT-targeted drainage of malignant hilar biliary obstruction with self-expanding metallic stents

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-49

  Freeman, Martin L ^a,b   Overby, Carol ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT TUMOR; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; MALIGNANT HILAR BILIARY OBSTRUCTION; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; WOUND DRAINAGE;

METAL;

ADULT; AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; COHORT STUDIES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347729557     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.292     Document Type: Article

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