Hepatobiliary scintigraphy: An effective tool in the management of bile leak following laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-43

  Tripathi, Madhavi ^a   Chandrashekar, N ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Thomas, E J ^a   Agarwal, Sandeep ^a   Bal, C S ^a   Malhotra, A ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Bile leak; Hepatobiliary scintigraphy; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

BILE DUCTS; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTIGRAPHY;

BODY FLUIDS;

TRACER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE FLOW; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXCRETION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTISCANNING; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINCTEROTOMY; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEMALE; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1442337620     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(03)00035-4     Document Type: Article

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