Is routine cholecystectomy indicated for asymptomatic cholelithiasis in patients undergoing gastric bypass?

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 747-751

  Fuller, William ^a   Rasmussen, Jason J ^a   Ghosh, Jagannath ^a   Ali, Mohamed R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Cholecystectomy; Gallstones; Gastric bypass; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Ursodiol

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SCREENING; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH BYPASS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 34347254685     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9138-7     Document Type: Article

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