EUS yield in evaluating biliary dilatation in patients with normal serum liver enzymes

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 508-512

  Malik, Shahid ^a   Kaushik, Neeraj ^a   Khalid, Asif ^a   Bauer, Kathy ^a   Brody, Debra ^a   Slivka, Adam ^a   McGrath, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Common bile duct; Endoscopic ultrasound; Pancreatobiliary; Periampullary diverticula

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; AGED; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIAMPULLARY DIVERTICULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPHINCTEROTOMY; STENT; SYMPTOM; VATER PAPILLA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMON BILE DUCT; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ENZYME TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846847996     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9582-6     Document Type: Review

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