Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 343-357

  Barie, Philip S ^a,b   Eachempati, Soumitra R ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute acalculous cholecystitis; CT; Percutaneous cholecystostomy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DIGLYCINE DERIVATIVE TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL VASCULITIS; ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; CHOLESTEROL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER GANGRENE; GALLBLADDER ISCHEMIA; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; RADIOISOTOPE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VASCULITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART FAILURE; OBESITY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77952858880     PISSN: 08898553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gtc.2010.02.012     Document Type: Review

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