Role of preoperative helical CT before laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Evaluation of gallbladder and peritoneal adhesion

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-115

  Morishita, Shoji ^a   Honda, Shin ^b   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Hatanaka, Yoshimi ^b   Hayashida, Yoshiko ^a   Imuta, Masanori ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hlth Ins Hitoyoshi Gen Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholelithiasis; Gallstone; Helical CT; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER MUCOSA; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER; MALE; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADHESIONS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 2442665046     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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