Advancing age is not a reason to withhold ERCP

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 233-235

  Aftab, A R ^a   Donnellan, F ^a   Zeb, F ^a   Courtney, G ^a  

^a St Lukes General Hospital Kilkenny   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BILE DUCT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CANNULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREND STUDY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 61449208935     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn280     Document Type: Letter

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