Differentiating benign from malignant idiopathic biliary strictures: are we there yet?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-99

  Larghi, Alberto ^a   Waxman, Irving ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 34250697861     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.12.047     Document Type: Editorial

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