Preoperative assessment for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Feasibility of using spiral computed tomography

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 351-356

  Kwon, A Hon ^a   Inui, Hiroyuki ^a   Imamura, Atsushi ^a   Uetsuji, Shoji ^a   Kamiyama, Yasuo ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC DUCT; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCTS; CHILD; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031911647     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199803000-00006     Document Type: Article

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