Guidelines on the management of common bile duct stones (CBDS)

Gut

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1004-1021

  Williams, Earl J ^b   Green, Jonathan ^c   Beckingham, Ian ^d   Parks, Rowan ^d   Martin, Derrick ^e   Lombard, Martin ^a,f  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b British Society of Gastroenterology

^c ERCP Stakeholder Group

^d Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

^e Royal College of Radiologists

^f ERCP Audit Steering Committee ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OCTANOIN; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 46349104852     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2007.121657     Document Type: Review

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