Percutaneous cholecystostomy for high-risk acute cholecystitis patients

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 577-

  Arnaud, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Pessaux, Patrick ^b  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Department of Digestive Surgery ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGING; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DECOMPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GALLBLADDER; HEMOBILIARY FISTULA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERITONITIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHOLECYSTITIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NOTE; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CRITICAL CARE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 45149085725     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31817308bd     Document Type: Editorial

References (3)

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