Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis and the consequences of gallbladder perforation, bile spillage, and 'loss' of stones

European Journal of Surgery

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 425-431

  Assaff, Yaron ^a   Matter, Ibrahim ^a   Sabo, Edmond ^a   Mogilner, Jorge G ^a   Nash, Ernest ^a   Abrahamson, Jack ^a   Eldar, Samuel ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Perforation of gallbladder; Spillage of bile; Spillage of stones

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BILE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BILE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE;

EID: 0031833896     PISSN: 11024151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/110241598750004238     Document Type: Article

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