Endoscopic biliary stenting facilitates safe and early removal of T-tube in liver transplant patients

Minerva Chirurgica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-35

  Rolles, K ^a   Fusai, G ^a,b   Rolando, N ^a   Koti, R ^a   Patch, D ^a   Davidson, B R ^a   Burroughs, A K ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biliary stent; Liver transplantation; T tube

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT STENT; BILE LEAKAGE; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; T TUBE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 21244443342     PISSN: 00264733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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