Does gender affect laparoscopic cholecystectomy?

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-161

  Botaitis, Sotirios ^a   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Pitiakoudis, Michail ^a   Perente, Sebachedin ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Sex

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SUPPURATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42449152879     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e318165c899     Document Type: Article

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