Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the new millennium: How far have we come?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 867-872

  Lichten, J B ^a   Reid, J J ^b   Zahalsky, M P ^a   Friedman, R L ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Cholecystitis; Cholelithiasis; Gallstone pancreatitis; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEW YORK CITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 0034927758     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004640080004     Document Type: Article

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