Acute acalculous cholecystitis

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 302-309

  Barie, Philip S ^a   Eachempati, Soumitra R ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; ICOSANOID; OPIATE; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROSCOPY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RELIABILITY; REPERFUSION INJURY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SHOCK; THICKNESS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; ULTRASOUND; VASCULITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; HUMANS;

EID: 0042330186     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-003-0067-x     Document Type: Review

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