Reproduction of postprandial symptoms with cholecystokinin injection: An indication for cholecystectomy without the presence of gallstones or an abnormal ejection fraction on quantitative cholescintigraphy?

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 689-692

  Cofer, Joseph B ^a   Dart IV, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; GALLSTONE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATHOLOGY; POSTPRANDAL SYMPTOM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; ADULT; FEMALE; INJECTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTOKININ; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548527385     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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