Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is safe but underused in the elderly

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1014-1020

  Tucker, James J ^a   Yanagawa, Franz ^a   Grim, Rod ^a   Bell, Theodore ^a   Ahuja, Vanita ^a  

^a YORK HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052072020     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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