Endoscopic Management of Benign Bile Duct Strictures

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 295-311

  Baron, Todd H ^a   DaVee, Tomas ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune cholangiopathy; Biliary strictures; Endoscopic therapy; ERCP; Liver transplant; Pancreatitis; Sclerosing cholangitis

Indexed keywords

BALLOON DILATATION; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; DILATATION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; METAL STENT; PLASTIC STENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; STENT THROMBOSIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DILATATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; STENTS;

EID: 84876480543     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: 15581950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2013.01.001     Document Type: Review

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