Acute pancreatitis and a long common channel

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 365-369

  Kamisawa, Terumi ^a   Tu, Yuyang ^a   Nakajima, Hitoshi ^a   Egawa, Naoto ^a   Tsuruta, Kouji ^a   Okamoto, Atsutake ^a   Matsukawa, Masakatsu ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Biliopancreatic reflux; Common channel; High confluence of pancreaticobiliary ducts; Pancreaticobiliary maljunction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT MALFORMATION; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS MALFORMATION; PANCREATICOBILIARY MALJUNCTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPHINCTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 34447521413     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9057-4     Document Type: Article

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