Endoscopic Therapy with Multiple Plastic Stents for Benign Biliary Strictures due to Chronic Calcific Pancreatitis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 96-98

  Baron, Todd H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFLAMMATION; LIVER FIBROSIS; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; PLASTICS; STENTS;

EID: 1642539065     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200402000-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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