Unique complication of a biliary stent: Erosion through the common hepatic duct wall [1]

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 194-

  Dundee, Philip E ^a   Franzi, Stephen J ^a   Thomas, Peter R ^a  

^a Northeast Health Wangaratta ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT STENT; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HEPATIC DUCT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LETTER; PANCREAS DUCT; STENT; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; MALE; STENTS;

EID: 33846874101     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.04009.x     Document Type: Letter

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