Incidental cholecystectomy in the over-70 age group. A 19-year retrospective, comparative study

International Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 102-104

  Watemberg, S ^a,b   Landau, O ^a   Avrahami, R ^a   Nudelman, I L ^a   Reiss, R ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aged; Cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030943830     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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