Emergency cholecystostomy and subsequent cholecystectomy for acute gallstone cholecystitis in the elderly

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1521-1525

  Borzellino, G ^a   De Manzoni, G ^a   Ricci, F ^a   Castaldini, G ^a   Guglielmi, A ^a   Cordiano, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0032806417     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.01284.x     Document Type: Article

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