Is early laparoscopic cholecystectomy safe after the "safe period"?

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 471-474

  Farooq, Tahir ^a   Buchanan, Gordon ^a   Manda, Vijay ^a   Kennedy, Robin ^a   Ockrim, Jonathan ^a  

^a YEOVIL DISTRICT HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249113058     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: 15579034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2008.0363     Document Type: Article

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