The frequency of bile duct crystals in patients with presumed biliary pancreatitis

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-41

  Kohut, Maciej ^a   Nowak, Andrzej ^a   Nowakowska Duława, Ewa ^a   Kaczor, Roman ^a   Marek, Tomasz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIRUBIN; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC;

EID: 85047684981     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.115475     Document Type: Article

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