Precut papillotomy: A risky technique not only for experts but also for average endoscopists skilled in ERCP

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1485-1489

  Figueiredo, Fátima A F ^a,b   Pelosi, Alexandre Dias ^b   Machado, Lílian ^b   Francioni, Ellen ^b   Freitas, Glaucia ^b   Hatum, Priscila Barbi ^b   De Mello Perez, Renata ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Copa D'Or   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; Endoscopic sphincterotomy; Outcome studies; Papillotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANNULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREATITIS; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRECUT PAPILLOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VATER PAPILLOTOMY; CATHETERIZATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CATHETERIZATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953630400     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-009-0860-y     Document Type: Article

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