Hepatolithiasis and the syndrome of recurrent pyogenic cholangitis: Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-48

  Tsui, Wilson Man Shan ^a   Chan, Yiu Kay ^a   Wong, Chi Tat ^a   Lo, Yan Fai ^a   Yeung, Yat Wah ^a   Lee, Yat Wing ^a  

^a Caritas Medical Centre Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hepatolithiasis; oriental cholangiohepatitis; recurrent pyogenic cholangitis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT STONE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIET; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; FIBROSIS; HEPATIC DUCT; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

AGED; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME;

EID: 79951916911     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: 10988971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1272833     Document Type: Article

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