ERCP and short-term stent-trial in patients with anastomotic biliary stricture following liver transplantation

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 516-522

  Cantu P ^a   Tenca, A ^a   Donato, M F ^a   Rossi, G ^a   Forzenigo, L ^a   Piodi, L ^a   Rigamonti, C ^a   Agnelli, F ^a   Biondetti, P ^a   Conte, D ^a   Penagini, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anastomotic stricture; Biliary stenting; ERCP; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349267820     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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