Gallbladder Contractility in Liver Cirrhosis: Comparative Study in Patients with and Without Gallbladder Stones

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-24

  Acalovschi, Monica ^a   Dumitrascu, Dan L ^a   Nicoara, Cezar D ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Child class; Gallbladder emptying; Gallstones; Liver cirrhosis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER CONTRACTION; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; GALLBLADDER MOTILITY; GALLSTONE; GALLSTONE FORMATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0842291683     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000011596.33237.5c     Document Type: Article

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