Percutaneous cholecystostomy in the management of acute cholecystitis

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 170-171

  Hadas Halpern, Irith ^a   Patlas, Michael ^a   Knizhnik, Michael ^a   Zaghal, Ibrahim ^a   Fisher, Drora ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; High risk patients; Percutaneous cholecystotomy

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; PATIENT MONITORING; RISKS;

EMERGENCY SURGERY;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRASOUND;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037365686     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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