Prospective analysis of 101 consecutive cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis operated with harmonic scalpel

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 312-316

  Catena, Fausto ^a   Ansaloni, Luca ^a   Di Saverio, Salomone ^a   Gazzotti, Filippo ^a   Coccolini, Federico ^a   Pinna, Antonio Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute Cholecystitis; Conversion Rate; Harmonic Scalpel; Hepatobiliary Surgery; Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy; Postoperative Morbidity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIOSTASIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; HARMONIC SCALPEL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; ITALY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCALPEL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70349233928     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3181b16662     Document Type: Article

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