Unique Features of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in β Thalassemia Patients

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 318-321

  Katz, Ran ^a,b   Goldfarb, Ada ^a   Muggia, Michael ^a   Gimmon, Zvi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cholelithiasis; Hemochromatosis; Laparoscopy; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLIC; CYSTIC DUCT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLIC; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242459622     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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