Canadian Association of General Surgeons and American College of Surgeons Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery. 13. Wait-and-see policy or laparoscopic cholecystectomy after endoscopic sphincterotomy for bile-duct stones

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 244-246

  Barkun, Jeffrey ^b   Dixon, Elijah ^b   Strasberg, Steven ^b   McKenzie, Marg ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT STONE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NOTE; SPHINCTEROTOMY;

EID: 21344435532     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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