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Accuracy of magnetic resonance cholangiography compared to operative endoscopy in detecting biliary stones, a single center experience and review of literature
Francesco A Polistina, Mauro Frego, Department of General Surgery, Suor Maria Teresa di Calcutta, Padova sud Hospital, 35043 Monselice, Italy
Marco Bisello, Department of General Surgery and Service of Endoscopy, Suor Maria Teresa di Calcutta, Padova sud Hospital, 35043 Monselice, Italy
Emy Manzi, School of Surgery, La Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy
Antonella Vardanega, Bortolo Perin, Department of Radiology, Suor Maria Teresa di Calcutta, Padova sud Hospital, 35043 Monselice, Italy
Author contributions: Polistina FA designed the report, drafted and edited the manuscript; Vardanega A and Perin B revised radiologic imaging and drafted the manuscript; Bisello M and Manzi E revised EUS/ERCP procedures and selected articles for review from literature; Frego M performed the literature search discussed literature and edited the manuscript.
Ethics approval: The present article has been approved by the Suor M. T. di Calcutta, Padova sud Hospital Advisory board.
Informed consent: Since the present study is retrospective there was no specific written informed consent. However, all involved subjects gave their verbal consent to the use of their own data for research purposes given the anonymity guarantee for each one from the study designer.
Conflict-of-interest: All authors declare: no support from any organization for the submitted work; authors declare no conflict of interests nor other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
Data sharing: No data will be available on public repository for the present study.
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Correspondence to: Francesco A Polistina, MD, Department of General Surgery, Suor Maria Teresa di Calcutta, Padova sud Hospital, Via Albere 1, SP8, 35043 Monselice, Italy. francescopolistina@hotmail.it
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Received: June 18, 2014
Peer-review started: June 19, 2014
First decision: July 10, 2014
Revised: February 17, 2015
Accepted: March 16, 2015
Article in press: March 18, 2015
Published online: April 28, 2015
Processing time: 307 Days and 23 Hours
Peer-review started: June 19, 2014
First decision: July 10, 2014
Revised: February 17, 2015
Accepted: March 16, 2015
Article in press: March 18, 2015
Published online: April 28, 2015
Processing time: 307 Days and 23 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: The present paper is the report on a series of patients evaluated for biliary disease. Particularly the study is focused on performance of magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography performance as the upfront examination tool for this group of diseases as compared to endoscopic ultrasounds and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Furthermore we did an extensive revision of the worldwide literature on the issue and discuss results of the review comparing them to our own.