Biliary sludge: The sluggish gallbladder

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2003, Pages 39-45

  Pazzi, P ^a   Gamberini, S ^a   Buldrini, P ^a   Gullini, S ^a  

^a S ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biliary sludge; Gallbladder motility; Gallstone disease

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM SALT; CEFTRIAXONE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CHOLESTEROL; OCTREOTIDE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACROMEGALY; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; BILIARY COLIC; BLADDER ASPIRATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ADSORPTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FAT INTAKE; GALLBLADDER CONTRACTION; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; GALLBLADDER MOTILITY; GALLSTONE; GALLSTONE FORMATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPAIRED BLADDER EMPTYING; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIPID DIET; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PANCREATITIS; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH BYPASS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BILE; CHEMISTRY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

BILE; CHOLECYSTOLITHIASIS; CHOLESTEROL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 7044265472     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(03)00093-8     Document Type: Article

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