Outcomes of contemporary management of gangrenous and non-gangrenous acute cholecystitis

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Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 551-558

  Nikfarjam, Mehrdad ^a   Niumsawatt, Vachara ^a   Sethu, Arun ^a   Fink, Michael A ^a   Muralidharan, Vijayaragavan ^a   Starkey, Graham ^a   Jones, Robert M ^a   Christophi, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

acute cholecystitis; cholecystectomy; complications; laparoscopy; morbidity; mortality

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; UREA;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEST INFECTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYSTIC DUCT; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GANGRENOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NONGANGRENOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; TACHYCARDIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 79960555912     PISSN: 1365182X     EISSN: 14772574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-2574.2011.00327.x     Document Type: Article

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