Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in two patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis and situs inversus totalis

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 519-521

  Demetriades, H ^a,c   Botsios, D ^a   Dervenis, C ^b   Evagelou, J ^a   Agelopoulos, S ^a   Dadoukis, J ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Situs inversus

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GALLBLADDER; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER; MALE; NAUSEA; SITUS INVERSUS; SPLEEN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VOMITING;

EID: 0033389241     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018780     Document Type: Article

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