A Taiwanese Woman with Acute Cholangitis

A. N. Barkun ,; J. S. Barkun ,; J. Baillie

doi:10.1055/s-2000-8093

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2000; 32(11): 890-894
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-8093

Evidence-Based Endoscopy

A Taiwanese Woman with Acute Cholangitis

A. N. Barkun ¹,, J. S. Barkun ¹,, J. Baillie ²

¹ McGill University, and the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
² Dept. of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States

In this series we ask one or more experts to review a case. They are provided with information on which further management is to be based, and asked to explain their rationale, using the available evidence in the literature. What was actually done in the case is then revealed.

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