Post-ERCP pancreatitis rates do not differ between needle-knife and pull-type pancreatic sphincterotomy techniques: a multiendoscopist 13-year experience

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1271-1275

  Lawrence, Christopher ^a   Romagnuolo, Joseph ^a   Cotton, Peter B ^a   Payne, K Mark ^a   Hawes, Robert H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; VATER PAPILLA STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH CAROLINA; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349240951     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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