Opie's hypothesis revisited: Acute pancreatitis due to bile reflux into the pancreas

Pancreatology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-40

  Löhr, J Matthias ^a,b   Schneider, Alexander ^b   Diehl, Steffen J ^b   Witt, Heiko ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; BILE REFLUX; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84862194507     PISSN: 14243903     EISSN: 14243911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pan.2011.12.001     Document Type: Letter

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