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World J Gastroenterol. Mar 7, 2013; 19(9): 1372-1379
Published online Mar 7, 2013. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i9.1372
Endoscopic ultrasonography guided biliary drainage: Summary of consortium meeting, May 7th, 2011, Chicago
Michel Kahaleh, Everson LA Artifon, Manuel Perez-Miranda, Kapil Gupta, Takao Itoi, Kenneth F Binmoeller, Marc Giovannini
Michel Kahaleh, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, United States
Everson LA Artifon, Department of Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil
Manuel Perez-Miranda, Endoscopy Unit, Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega, 47012 Valladolid, Spain
Kapil Gupta, Pancreatic Biliary Department, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA 90048, United States
Takao Itoi, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan
Kenneth F Binmoeller, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94115, United States
Marc Giovannini, Department of Gastroenterology, Paoli-calmettes Institute, 13273 Marseille, France
Author contributions: Kahaleh M, Artifon ELA, Perez-Miranda M, Gupta K, Itoi T, Binmoeller KF and Giovannini M designed and organized the meeting and provided summary results; Kahaleh M summarized the data and wrote the paper.
Correspondence to: Michel Kahaleh, MD, FASGE, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Endoscopy, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1305 York Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10021, United States. mkahaleh@gmail.com
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Received: June 30, 2012
Revised: August 20, 2012
Accepted: December 22, 2012
Published online: March 7, 2013
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