Is empiric cholecystectomy a reasonable treatment option for idiopathic acute pancreatitis?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 356-357

  Evans, William B ^a   Draganov, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; TRYPSINOGEN; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; AGE; ASPIRATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILE LEAKAGE; BILE SECRETION; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLSTONE; GALLSTONE DISSOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GOLD STANDARD; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MANOMETRY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSCOPY; OBESITY; ODDI SPHINCTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 33745770630     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0527     Document Type: Review

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