Temporary placement of a newly designed, fully covered, self-expandable metal stent for refractory bile leaks

Gut and Liver

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-99

  Hwang, Jae Chul ^a   Kim, Jin Hong ^a   Yoo, Byung Moo ^a   Lim, Sun Gyo ^a   Kim, Jin Hun ^a   Kim, Wook Hwan ^a   Kim, Myung Wook ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bile leak; Duct of Luschka; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Self expandable metal stent

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; POLITEF;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; BILE LEAKAGE; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTITIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATIC DUCT; HUMAN; LIVER HILUS;

EID: 79952983920     PISSN: 19762283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5009/gnl.2011.5.1.96     Document Type: Article

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