Needle-knife sphincterotomy and post-ERCP pancreatitis: time to lower the threshold for the needle?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 272-274

  Tham, Tony C K ^a   Vandervoort, Jo ^b  

^a ULSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Onze Lieve Vrouwe Ziekenhuis   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNULATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FISTULOTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEEDLE KNIFE SPHINCTEROTOMY; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPHINCTEROTOMY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VATER PAPILLOTOMY;

BILE DUCTS; CATHETERIZATION; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 75749117147     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.10.060     Document Type: Editorial

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