Congenital duplication of the gallbladder

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 217-220

  Safioleas, Michael C ^a   Papavassiliou, Vassilios G ^a   Moulakakis, Konstantinos G ^a   Angouras, Dimitrios C ^a   Skandalakis, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLEDOCHOTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT CYST; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER DUPLICATION; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GALLBLADDER; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645510784     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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