EUS versus endoscopic retrograde cholangiography for patients with intermediate probability of bile duct stones: a prospective randomized trial

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-252

  Karakan, Tarkan ^a   Cindoruk, Mehmet ^a   Alagozlu, Hakan ^a   Ergun, Meltem ^a   Dumlu, Sukru ^a   Unal, Selahattin ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPHINCTEROTOMY;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58649113212     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.05.023     Document Type: Article

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