A prospective review of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Brunei

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 120-122

  Kok, Kenneth Y Y ^a   Mathevv, V V ^a   Tan, Kim Kee ^a   Yapp, Samuel K S ^a  

^a RIPAS HOSPITAL   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Complications; Indications; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRUNEI DARUSSALAM; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ASIA; BIOLOGY; BRUNEI; CHOLESTASIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HEPATIC EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; STUDIES; SURGERY; TREATMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRUNEI; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031965724     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199804000-00008     Document Type: Article

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