Diagnostic endoscopic ultrasonography: Assessment of safety and prevention of complications

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 4659-4676

  Jenssen, Christian ^a   Alvarez Sánchez, Maria Victoria ^b   Napoléon, Bertrand ^b   Faiss, Siegbert ^c  

^a Klinik für Innere Medizin Krankenhaus Märkisch Oderland GmbH   (Germany)

^b Hopital Prive Jean Mermoz   (France)

^c ASKLEPIOS HOSPITAL BARMBEK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Bleeding; Complications; Contraindications; Endoscopic ultrasonography; Endoscopic ultrasonography guided fine needle biopsy; Infection; Perforation; Risk; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LEVOFLOXACIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; PROPOFOL;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTEREMIA; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BILIARY STENT; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPLICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DUODENUM DIVERTICULUM; DUODENUM PERFORATION; DUODENUM STENOSIS; DUODENUM ULCER; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEIOMYOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; PAIN; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SEDATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THORAX PAIN; TUMOR SEEDING;

EID: 84867703914     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i34.4659     Document Type: Article

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