Innovations in Treating the Elderly Who Have Biliary and Pancreatic Disease

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 545-558

  Walsh, R Matthew ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; AGING; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SCREENING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLSTONE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745914942     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2006.04.007     Document Type: Review

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