## Abstract One hundred and twenty consecutive deeply jaundiced patients undergoing surgery for bile duct obstruction were analysed. Diagnosis by either ultrasound or percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography was correct in 84 per cent and 86 per cent of patients respectively. Combination of the tw
Cysteinyl leukotrienes in the bile of patients with obstructive jaundice
β Scribed by Masahito Uemura; Hideyuki Kojima; Ulrike Buchholz; Eiryo Kikuchi; Masami Matsumoto; Masaji Kikukawa; Hiroo Imazu; Hiroshi Fukui; Tadasu Tsujii; Dietrich Keppler
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 359 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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