Intraductal US in evaluation of biliary strictures without a mass lesion on CT scan or magnetic resonance imaging: significance of focal wall thickening and extrinsic compression at the stricture site{A figure is presented}

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-96

  Krishna, Naveen B ^a   Saripalli, Saradhi ^a   Safdar, Rizwan ^a   Agarwal, Banke ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC DUCT; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250730174     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.10.020     Document Type: Article

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