Prospective randomized trial comparing EUS and EGD for transmural drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts: a need for a large randomized study

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 432-

  Sauer, Bryan ^a   Kahaleh, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; LETTER; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STENT;

DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75749138545     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.05.026     Document Type: Letter

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