Case 9-2006: A 35-year-old woman with recurrent right-upper-quadrant pain

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1295-1303

  Hurtado, Rocío M ^a,b   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a,b   Kradin, Richard L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT STONE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOASSAY; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LITHOTRIPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPHINCTEROTOMY; ANIMAL; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BILE DUCT; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEPATIC DUCT; HEPATITIS C; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; LIVER RESECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTASIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 33645102371     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059044     Document Type: Article

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