Considerations concerning laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the extremely elderly

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-60

  Pavlidis, Theodoros E ^a,b   Marakis, Georgios N ^a   Symeonidis, Nikolaos ^a   Psarras, Kyriakos ^a   Ballas, Konstantinos ^a   Rafailidis, Savvas ^a   Sakantamis, Athanasios K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; ELDERLY CARE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS STONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COLIC; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39149096597     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: 15579034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2007.0037     Document Type: Article

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