Predicting the Success of Endoscopic Transpapillary Gallbladder Drainage for Patients with Acute Cholecystitis During Pretreatment Evaluation - Concepedia

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Predicting the Success of Endoscopic Transpapillary Gallbladder Drainage for Patients with Acute Cholecystitis During Pretreatment Evaluation

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2008

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Osamu Ogawa, Hiroki Yoshikumi, Naotaka Maruoka, Yusuke Hashimoto, Yui Kishimoto, Tsunamasa Watanabe, Yuichiro Kuroki, Hiroshi Yasuda, Yutaka Endo, Kazuaki Inoue,

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

Abstract

Ultrasonographic measures of gallbladder minor-axis length and wall thickness can serve as important predictors of ETGBD technical difficulties during pretreatment evaluation of patients with acute cholecystitis.

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