Surgical clip migration and choledocholithiasis: A late, abrupt complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2254-2256

  Attwell, Augustin ^a   Hawes, Robert ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choledocholithiasis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; HEPATIC DUCT; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINCTEROTOMY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; X RAY;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; STENTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34547830330     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9101-9     Document Type: Article

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