A 14-year analysis of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Conversion - When and why?

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 271-276

  Shamiyeh, Andreas ^a   Danis, Jan ^a   Wayand, Wolfgang ^a   Zehetner, Jörg ^a,b  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Conversion; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADHESION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOPERITONEUM, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 34548069634     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e31805d093b     Document Type: Article

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