Sonographic assessments of gastrointestinal and biliary functions

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-367

  Dietrich, Christoph F ^a   Braden, Barbara ^b  

^a Innere Medizin 2 ^*  (Germany)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

doppler; gallbladder; gastric emptying; intestine; oesophagus; secretin; stomach

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PANCREAS;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; DUODENUM; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LIVER DISEASES; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PYLORUS; RECTUM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ZENKER DIVERTICULUM;

EID: 66749121190     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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