How good is IDUS in patients with isolated biliary strictures?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1690-1691

  Jha, Reena ^a   Al Kawas, Firas H ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4544373682     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.40628.x     Document Type: Editorial

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