Are left-sided gallbladders really located on the left side?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 274-280

  Nagai, Motoki ^a   Kubota, Keiichi ^a   Kawasaki, Seiji ^b   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a   Bandai, Yasutsugu ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030939620     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199703000-00006     Document Type: Article

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