Advances in the endoscopic management of common bile duct stones

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 535-544

  Trikudanathan, Guru ^a   Arain, Mustafa A ^a   Attam, Rajeev ^a   Freeman, Martin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN;

BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY STENT; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; BILIARY TRACT INFECTION; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLANGITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DIRECT PERORAL CHOLANGIOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC BILIARY SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLARY LARGE BALLOON DILATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIRIZZI SYNDROME; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOSCOPIC LITHOTRIPSY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; LIVER DISEASES; MIRIZZI SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS;

EID: 85047693402     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2014.76     Document Type: Review

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