Pancreatic Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration: Complication rate and clinical course in a single centre

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 520-523

  Carrara, Silvia ^a   Arcidiacono, Paolo Giorgio ^a   Mezzi, Gianni ^a   Petrone, Maria Chiara ^a   Boemo, Cinzia ^a   Testoni, Pier Alberto ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; EUS guided FNA; Haemorrhage; Pancreas; Pancreatitis; Perforation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77955555368     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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