Disconnected pancreatic tail syndrome: a plea for multidisciplinarity

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 680-682

  Devière, Jacques ^a   Antaki, Fadi ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISCONNECTED PANCREATIC TAIL SYNDROME; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NECROSIS; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; RECURRENCE RISK; SPHINCTEROTOMY;

DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC FISTULA; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40949164340     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.12.056     Document Type: Editorial

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