Is endoscopic treatment beneficial in patients with clinically suspicious of common bile duct stones but no obvious filling defects during the ERCP examination?

BACKGROUND: Sometimes, no definite filling defect could be found by cholangiogram (ERC) during the endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatiographic (ERCP) exam; even prior images had evidence of common bile duct stones (CBDS). We aimed in estimating the positive rate of extraction of CBDS who had t...

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Published in:BMC Gastroenterol
Main Authors: Chiang, Po-Hung, Lai, Kwok-Hung, Tsai, Tzung-Jiun, Lin, Kung-Hung, Wang, Kai-Ming, Kao, Sung-Shuo, Sun, Wei-Chih, Cheng, Jin-Shiung, Hsu, Ping-I, Tsai, Wei-Lun, Chen, Wen-Chi, Li, Yun-Da, Wang, E-Ming, Lin, Huey-Shyan, Chan, Hoi-Hung
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5002136/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27565889
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-016-0524-2
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