Symptomatic or asymptomatic gallstone disease: Is the gallbladder motility the clue?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 47, 2002, Pages 1208-1212

  Brand, Boris ^a   Lerche, Lutz ^a   Stange, Eduard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Etiology; Gallbladder motility; Gallstones; Pain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; BODY MASS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER CONTRACTION; GALLBLADDER MOTILITY; GALLSTONE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; PANCREATITIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THICKNESS;

ADULT; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036376880     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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