Hemobilia

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-129

  Chin, Marcus W ^a   Enns, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bile duct; Bleeding; Hemobilia

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SOMATOSTATIN; THROMBIN; VASOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOMA; HEMOBILIA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; JAUNDICE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PARASITOSIS; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; ABDOMINAL INJURY; BILE DUCT; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; BILE DUCTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HEMOBILIA; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77955923744     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-010-0092-5     Document Type: Review

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