ERCP is safe and effective in patients 80 years of age and older compared with younger patients

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 899-905

  Fritz, Eva ^a   Kirchgatterer, Andreas ^a   Hubner, Dietmar ^a   Aschl, Gerhard ^a   Hinterreiter, Maximilian ^a   Stadler, Bernhard ^a   Knoflach, Peter ^a  

^a Klinikum Wels   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT DISEASES; CHILD; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751405595     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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