The clinical management and results of surgery for acute cholecystitis

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 69-80

  Hashizume, Makoto ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a   MacFadyen Jr , Bruce V ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Chronic cholecystitis; Conversion rate

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959660144     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335069800500202     Document Type: Article

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