Spilled gallstones after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A relevant problem? A retrospective analysis of 10,174 laparoscopic cholecystectomies

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-309

  Schafer M ^a   Suter, C ^a   Klaiber, Ch ^b   Wehrli, H ^b   Frei, E ^b   Krahenbuhl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Assoc Laparoscopic T   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal abscess; Cholelithiasis; Complications after laparoscopic cholecystecto my; Laparoscopy; Spilled gall stones

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032040075     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900659     Document Type: Article

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