Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for chronic cholecystitis in Jamaican patients with sickle cell disease: Preliminary experience

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-24

  Plummer, J M ^a   Duncan, N D ^a   Mitchell, D I G ^a   McDonald, A H ^a   Reid, M ^a   Arthurs, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING EXERCISE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERITONEUM ADHESION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAR FORMATION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

EID: 33646590603     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0043-31442006000100006     Document Type: Article

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