Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis: Is it really safe?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-49

  Kum, Cheng Kiong ^a,b   Eypasch, Ernst ^a   Lefering, Rolf ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund ^a   Troidl, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0030049611     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900008     Document Type: Article

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