A Prospective Study of Common Bile Duct Calculi in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Natural History of Choledocholithiasis Revisited

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-33

  Collins, Chris ^a   Maguire, Donal ^a   Ireland, Adrian ^a   Fitzgerald, Edward ^a   O'Sullivan, Gerald C ^a  

^a MERCY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0842327245     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000103069.00170.9c     Document Type: Article

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