The investigation of unexplained biliary dilatation

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-159

  Coss, Alan ^b   Enns, Robert ^a  

^a Pacific Gastroenterology Associates   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT SCINTISCANNING; COMMON BILE DUCT CYST; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VATER PAPILLA STENOSIS;

BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPHINCTER OF ODDI;

EID: 63149157293     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-009-0024-4     Document Type: Review

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