Difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Current evidence and strategies of management

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 211-217

  Hussain, Abdulzahra ^a  

^a Princess Royal University Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

common bile duct; laparoscopic cholecystectomy; laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy; open cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGING; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; COMORBIDITY; CYSTIC DUCT; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; OBESITY; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 80052195810     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e318220f1b1     Document Type: Review

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