Current management of biliary complications after liver transplantation: Emphasis on endoscopic therapy;Manejo actual de las complicaciones biliares tras un trasplante hepático: hincapié en el tratamiento endoscópico.

Gastroenterologia y Hepatologia

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 107-115

  Balderramo, Domingo ^a   Navasa, Miguel ^a,b   Cardenas, Andres ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bile leak; Biliary strictures; Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography; Liver transplantation; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILOMA; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; GALLSTONE; HEMOBILIA; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MUCOCELE; VATER PAPILLA STENOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79952105681     PISSN: 02105705     EISSN: 15789519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gastrohep.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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