Percutaneous transhepatic gall bladder drainage: A better initial therapeutic choice for patients with gall bladder perforation in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 836-840

  Huang, C C ^a   Lo, H C ^b   Tzeng, Y M ^b   Huang, H H ^b   Chen, J D ^c   Kao, W F ^b   Yen, D H T ^b   Huang, C I ^b   Lee, C H ^b  

^a CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; DRAINAGE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36749054704     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.052175     Document Type: Article

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