Chronic acalculous biliary disease: Cholecystokinin cholescintigraphy is useful in formulating treatment strategy and predicting success after cholecystectomy

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 382-384

  Poynter, Mark T ^a   Saba, Alexander K ^a   Evans, Richard A ^a   Johnson, W Michael ^a   Hasl, David M ^a  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ OCTAPEPTIDE; TECHNETIUM; CHOLECYSTOKININ; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036550937     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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