Gallbladder aspiration for acute cholecystitis in high-surgical-risk patients [2]

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 463-465

  Tazawa, Junichi ^a   Sanada, Katsuhiro ^a   Maekawa, Shinya ^a   Sakai, Yoshinori ^a   Yamane, Michio ^a   Kusano, Fumihiko ^a   Nagayama, Kazuyoshi ^a   Ito, Koji ^a   Takiguchi, Noriaki ^a   Hiranuma, Susumu ^a   Maeda, Manabu ^a  

^a TSUCHIURA KYODO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ASPIRATION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLIC; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GALLBLADDER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDROPS; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0038218471     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1746.2003.02970.x     Document Type: Letter

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