Biliary cysts: Etiology, diagnosis and management

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 4801-4810

  Jabłońska, Beata ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biliary cysts; Biliary drainage; Hepaticojejunostomy

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CA 195 ANTIGEN; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT CYST; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILE REFLUX; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BILOMA; CAROLI DISEASE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMMON BILE DUCT CYST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREATITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONITIS; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84867798463     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i35.4801     Document Type: Editorial

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