Female gender may give rise to difficulties in endoscopic and laparoscopic biliary surgery

Surg Endosc. 2008 Dec;22(12):2761-2. doi: 10.1007/s00464-008-0091-x. Epub 2008 Sep 21.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Bile Ducts / injuries*
  • Bile Ducts / physiology
  • Catheterization / adverse effects
  • Catheterization / methods*
  • Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde / methods*
  • Common Bile Duct / injuries
  • Common Bile Duct / physiology
  • Common Bile Duct / surgery
  • Elasticity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intraoperative Complications / etiology*
  • Motion
  • Pliability
  • Risk Factors
  • Sex Characteristics*
  • Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic / instrumentation
  • Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic / methods*