Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) resulting in gallbladder perforation in a solid organ transplant recipient: A case report

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 278-280

  Feltis, Brad A ^a   Lee, David A ^a   Gruessner, Rainer W G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acalculous cholecystitis; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031808593     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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