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Endoscopy 2000; 32(11): 890-894
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-8093
Evidence-Based Endoscopy
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

A Taiwanese Woman with Acute Cholangitis

A. N. Barkun 1,, J. S. Barkun 1,, J. Baillie 2
  • 1 McGill University, and the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • 2 Dept. of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States
In this series we ask one or more experts to review a case. They are provided with information on which further management is to be based, and asked to explain their rationale, using the available evidence in the literature. What was actually done in the case is then revealed.
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Publication Date:
31 December 2000 (online)

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Moderator's Introduction

I am very pleased to introduce not one but two Guest Discussants, the Canadian dynamic duo of gastrointestinal endoscopy and surgery, Drs Alan and Jeff Barkun. After years of study, I am now able to tell these twins apart: Jeff is the one who looks confused when you call him “Alan,” and vice versa. Dr Alan Barkun spent some time at Duke University during his training. I have been pleased to watch his emergence as an expert in endoscopic outcomes research. Dr Jeff Barkun provides the important surgical balance in the Barkun Brothers team. We appreciate your willingness to review a case for us, gentlemen!

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J. Baillie, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.P. 

Box 3189 Duke University Medical Center

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