Gallbladder polyps

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-108

  Persley, Kimberly M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYP; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 17444415745     PISSN: 10928472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11938-005-0002-3     Document Type: Review

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