Prospective randomized trial of EUS versus ERCP-guided common bile duct stone removal: an interim report (with video)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 238-243

  Artifon, Everson L A ^a   Kumar, Atul ^a   Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a   Chu, Adrienne ^a   Halwan, Bhawna ^a   Sakai, Paulo ^a   Bhutani, Manoop S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 58949101629     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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