Paediatric cholecystectomy: Shifting goalposts in the laparoscopic era

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1392-1395

  Chan, S ^b   Currie, J ^a   Malik, A I ^b   Mahomed, A A ^b  

^a ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ALEXANDRA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Choledocholithiasis; Laparoscopy; MRCP; Paediatric cholelithiasis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM STONE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREATITIS; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGEON; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD; UNITED KINGDOM;

BILIARY DYSKINESIA; CHILD; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 43049125833     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9422-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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