Prediction of patients with acute cholecystitis requiring emergent cholecystectomy: A simple score

Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mason, Rodney J ^a,b   Yacoub, Wael N ^a   Petrosyan, Mikael ^a   Sehgal, Indu ^a   Ma, Yanling ^a   Chandrasoma, Parakrama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER WALL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GANGRENOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VOMITING;

EID: 77954601567     PISSN: 16876121     EISSN: 1687630X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/901739     Document Type: Article

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