Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in elderly patients

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-313

  Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Botaitis, Sotirios ^a   Tsaroucha, Alexandra ^a   Tripsianis, Grigoris ^a   Bounovas, Anastasios ^a   Pitiakoudis, Michail ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ageing patients; Cholecystectomy; Cholelithiasis; Laparoscopic

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 54349107208     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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