Complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Our experience in a district general hospital

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 449-458

  Triantafyllidis, Ioannis ^a   Nikoloudis, Nikolaos ^a   Sapidis, Nikolaos ^a   Chrissidou, Maria ^a   Kalaitsidou, Ioanna ^a   Chrissidis, Thomas ^a  

^a Edessa General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bile duct injury; Bile leakage; Complications; ERCP; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILE LEAKAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER HEMATOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT DISEASES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74949115910     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3181bd8f6d     Document Type: Article

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