Acute cholecystitis in high-risk patients: Percutaneous cholecystostomy vs conservative treatment

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1778-1784

  Hatzidakis, Adam A ^a   Prassopoulos, Panos ^a   Petinarakis, Ioannis ^a   Sanidas, Elias ^a   Chrysos, Emmanuel ^a   Chalkiadakis, Georgios ^a   Tsiftsis, Dimitrios ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; APACHE II score; Cholecystostomy; Percutaneous treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; APACHE; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PUNCTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUNCTURES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0036634379     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-001-1247-4     Document Type: Article

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