Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy as a "True" Outpatient Procedure: Initial Experience in 130 Consecutive Patients

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-49

  Lillemoe, Keith D ^a,b   Lin, John W ^a   Talamini, Mark A ^a   Yeo, Charles J ^a   Snyder, Douglas S ^a   Parker, Stephen D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallstones; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Outpatient surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; BALTIMORE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033237318     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(99)80007-9     Document Type: Article

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