Outcome of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients 80 years and older

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 745-748

  Tambyraja, Andrew L ^a,b   Kumar, Sudhir ^a,b   Nixon, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLSTONES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PANNICULITIS, PERITONEAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4744337666     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7378-4     Document Type: Article

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