Chronic acalculous cholecystitis: Laparoscopic treatment

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 114-122

  Jones, Daniel B ^a   Soper, Nathaniel J ^a   Brewer, Jerome D ^a   Quasebarth, Mary A ^a   Swanson, Paul E ^a   Strasberg, Steven M ^a   Brunt, L Michael ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acalculous cholecystitis; Biliary dyskinesia; Hepatobiliary scan; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; MEBROFENIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029915369     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199604000-00006     Document Type: Article

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