Recent advances in endoscopic management of difficult bile duct stones

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 376-385

  Yasuda, Ichiro ^a   Itoi, Takao ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bile duct stone; endoscopic lithotripsy; endoscopic papillary large balloon dilation; enteroscopy; peroral cholangioscopy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; BILIARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; BLEEDING; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DUODENOSCOPE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH II; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LACERATION; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER HEMATOMA; LIVER LACERATION; MIRIZZI SYNDROME; ODDI SPHINCTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREATITIS; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

BILE DUCT STONE; ENDOSCOPIC LITHOTRIPSY; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLARY LARGE BALLOON DILATION; ENTEROSCOPY; PERORAL CHOLANGIOSCOPY;

CHOLELITHIASIS; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84879693960     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/den.12118     Document Type: Review

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