Pancreatic duct stent insertion for functional smoldering pancreatitis

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 438-441

  Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a,b   Noone, Tara ^a   Hawes, Robert H ^a   Cotton, Peter B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; PANCREAS ENZYME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; OBSTRUCTION; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREATITIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; REVIEW; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 1242340417     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/S0016-5107(03)00025-7     Document Type: Article

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