Percutaneous transhepatic cholecystostomy: Effective treatment of acute cholecystitis in high risk patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 331-333

  Berman, Marius ^a   Nudelman, Israel L ^a   Fuko, Zeev ^a   Madhala, Osnat ^a   Neuman Levin, Margalit ^a   Lelcuk, Shlomo ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cholecystitis; Elderly; High risk patients; Transhepatic cholecystostomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY; ULTRASONICS;

SURGICAL RISKS;

HEALTH RISKS;

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BILIARY COLIC; CATHETER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MORTALITY; REMISSION; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SYMPTOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTITIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036251463     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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