Does gallbladder ejection fraction predict pathology after elective cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis?

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1052-1056

  Nakano, Kathy Jean ^a   Waxman, Kenneth ^a   Rimkus, Daniel ^a   Blaustein, John ^a  

^a SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ OCTAPEPTIDE; MEBROFENIN TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; GALLSTONE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; HOSPITALIZATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036985640     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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