Is there a role for routine preoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for suspected choledocholithiasis in children?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-361

  Vrochides, Dionisios V ^a   Sorrells Jr , Donald L ^a   Kurkchubasche, Ariel G ^a   Wesselhoeft Jr , Conrad W ^a   Tracy Jr , Thomas F ^a   Luks, Francois I ^a  

^a HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PANCREATITIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 16844370423     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.4.359     Document Type: Article

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