Male gender: Risk factor for severe symptomatic cholelithiasis

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 598-601

  Lein, Heng Hui ^a   Huang, Ching Shui ^a  

^a CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036561289     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-001-0275-1     Document Type: Article

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