Percutaneous transhepatic cholecystostomy and delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy in critically ill patients with acute calculus cholecystitis

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 62-66

  Spira, Ram M ^a   Nissan, Aviran ^a   Zamir, Oded ^a   Cohen, Tzeela ^a   Fields, Scott I ^a   Freund, Herbert R ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Critically ill; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Percutaneous cholecystostomy

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CATHETER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036181464     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(01)00849-2     Document Type: Article

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