Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 6 , Pages 419-424 , June 2010

Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided cholangiopancreatography and rendezvous techniques

  • Vanessa M. Shami
    • ,
  • Michel Kahaleh

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Digestive Health Center of Excellence, MSB 2153, Box 800708 University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville, VA 22908-0708, United States. Tel.: +1 434 243 9259; fax: +1 434 924 0491.

Received 11 August 2009 ,Accepted 24 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.09.009

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 6 , Pages 419-424 , June 2010

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