Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis. Can preoperative factors predict conversion?

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 299-302

  Khan, Iftikhar A ^a   El Tinay, Omer E ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SAUDI ARABIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THICKNESS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1842789119     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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