Initial experience of transnasal endoscopic biliary drainage without conscious sedation for the treatment of acute cholangitis (with video)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 328-332

  Itoi, Takao ^a   Kawai, Takashi ^a   Itokawa, Fumihide ^a   Sofuni, Atushi ^a   Kurihara, Toshio ^a   Tsuchiya, Takayoshi ^a   Ishii, Kentaro ^a   Tsuji, Shujiro ^a   Ikeuchi, Nobuhito ^a   Takeuchi, Mami ^a   Sakai, Yoshihiro ^a   Moriyasu, Fuminori ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEVER; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH I; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; JAUNDICE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHOLANGITIS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; MALE; STENTS;

EID: 38349135984     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.09.032     Document Type: Article

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