EUS-guided ERCP for patients with intermediate probability for choledocholithiasis: is it time for all of us to start doing this?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 669-672

  Savides, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 40949103581     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.09.015     Document Type: Editorial

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