High rate of complicated idiopathic gallstone disease in pediatric patients of a North American tertiary care center

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1544-1548

  Herzog, Denise ^a   Bouchard, Guylaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Choledocholithiasis; Cystic fibrosis; Hemolytic disease; Pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CROHN DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER BIOPSY; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEOPLASM; PANCREATITIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VATER PAPILLOTOMY;

EID: 41549142712     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.1544     Document Type: Review

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