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Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Biliary Drainage: Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Hepaticogastrostomy in Malignant Biliary Obstruction
Published on: March 25, 2022
Therapeutic biliary endoscopy
E L Fogel1, L McHenry, S Sherman
1Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA.
Abstract:
Some steps of progress have been seen in the area of biliary therapeutic endoscopy, in the understanding and management of primary sclerosing cholangitis, problems relating to liver transplantation, malignant biliary strictures, and complications after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, as well as sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. These topics are reviewed here.
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