Efficacy and safety of therapeutic ERCP for the elderly with choledocholithiasis: Comparison with younger patients

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1935-1941

  Obana, Takashi ^a   Fujita, Naotaka ^a   Noda, Yutaka ^a   Kobayashi, Go ^a   Ito, Kei ^a   Horaguchi, Jun ^a   Koshita, Shinsuke ^a   Kanno, Yoshihide ^a   Yamashita, Yasunobu ^a   Kato, Yuhei ^a   Ogawa, Takahisa ^a  

^a SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choledocholithiasis; Elderly; ERCP

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957950355     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3660     Document Type: Article

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