Advanced biliary access techniques: is the double-guidewire technique considered a “Wednesday’s child”?

Phonthep Angsuwatcharakon; Pradermchai Kongkam; Rungsun Rerknimitr

doi:10.1055/s-0042-120323

Endoscopy, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Endoscopy 2017; 49(01): 5-7
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-120323

Editorial

Advanced biliary access techniques: is the double-guidewire technique considered a “Wednesday’s child”?

Refering to Tse F et al. p. 15–26

Phonthep Angsuwatcharakon

¹Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

²Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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Pradermchai Kongkam

²Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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Rungsun Rerknimitr

²Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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