Updates in the treatment of gallstones

Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 649-660

  Lee, Sung Koo ^a   Kim, Myung Hwan ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Extrahepatic bile duct; Gallbladder; Gallstone; Intrahepatic bile duct; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DICLOFENAC; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY COLIC; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LIVER RESECTION; MONOTHERAPY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BALLOON DILATATION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; STENTS;

EID: 73449113347     PISSN: 17474124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/egh.09.57     Document Type: Review

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