Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in obese patients

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 243-246

  Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a,b   Botaitis, Sotirios ^a   Perente, Sebachedin ^a   Pitiakoudis, Michail ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Morbid obesity; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLON PERFORATION; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14644396149     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892053268516     Document Type: Review

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