Prophylactic cholecystectomy is not indicated following renal transplantation

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 317-319

  Melvin, W Scott ^a   Meier, David J ^a   Elkhammas, Elmahdi A ^a   Bumgardner, Ginny L ^a   Davies, Elizabeth A ^a   Henry, Mitchell L ^a   Pelletier, Ronald ^a   Ferguson, Ronald M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032053603     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00009-9     Document Type: Article

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