EUS: a meta-analysis of test performance in suspected choledocholithiasis

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-244

  Tse, Frances ^a   Liu, Louis ^a   Barkun, Alan N ^a   Armstrong, David ^a   Moayyedi, Paul ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38549172915     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.09.047     Document Type: Article

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