The role of endoscopic ultrasound in biliary strictures

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-162

  Conway, Jason D ^a   Mishra, Girish ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEMOBILIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; CHOLESTASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 47149104880     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-008-0037-4     Document Type: Review

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