Pre-operative endoscopic ultrasonography can optimise the management of patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with abnormal liver function tests as the sole risk factor for choledocholithiasis: A prospective study

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-77

  Meroni, Emanuele ^a   Bisagni, P ^a   Bona, S ^a   Fumagalli, U ^a   Zago, M ^a   Rosati, R ^a   Malesci, A ^a,b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bile duct stones; Endoscopic ultrasonography; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MIDAZOLAM;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; GALLBLADDER; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2142825101     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2003.09.013     Document Type: Article

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