Outcome analysis of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients aged 80 years and older with complicated gallstone disease

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 731-735

  Leandros, Emmanuel ^a   Alexakis, Nicholas ^a   Archontovasilis, Fotis ^a   Albanopoulos, Konstandinos ^a   Dardamanis, Dimitrios ^a   Menenakos, Evangelos ^a   Tsigris, Christos ^a   Giannopoulos, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; GALLBLADDER EMPYEMA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549060304     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: 15579034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2007.0018     Document Type: Article

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