Expectant treatment or cholecystectomy after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for choledocholithiasis in patients over 80 years old?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 357-360

  Pring, C M ^a   Skelding Millar, L ^a   Goodall, R J R ^a  

^a CALDERDALE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; Gallstones

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 21244448499     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-004-9089-1     Document Type: Article

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