Role of endoscopic ultrasonography in prevention of unnecessary endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: A prospective study of 150 patients

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 455-460

  Sotoudehmanesh, Rasoul ^a,b   Kolahdoozan, Shadi ^a   Asgari, Ali Ali ^a   Dooghaei Moghaddam, Masoud ^a   Ainechi, Sanaz ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Choledocholithiasis; Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography; Endoscopic ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY; ENZYMES; PATIENT MONITORING; RISK ANALYSIS;

CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; LIVER ENZYMES;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

LIVER ENZYME;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

EID: 34047217665     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.4.455     Document Type: Article

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