Is Biliary Microlithiasis a Significant Cause of Idiopathic Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis? A Long-term Follow-up Study

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-79

  Garg, Pramod Kumar ^a   Tandon, Rakesh Kumar ^a   Madan, Kaushal ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BILE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33846259783     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2006.06.023     Document Type: Article

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