Percutaneous cholecystostomy in patients with acute cholecystitis: Experience of 45 patients at a US referral center

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 206-211

  Byrne, Michael F ^a   Suhocki, Paul ^a   Mitchell, Robert M ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Stiffler, Helen L ^a   Jowell, Paul S ^a   Branch, Malcolm S ^a   Baillie, John ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTOENTEROSTOMY; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; DEATH; ENTEROSTOMY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042166006     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(03)00143-1     Document Type: Article

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