Cholelithiasis and its complications in children and adolescents: Update and case discussion

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-79

  Poffenberger, Cori McClure ^a,b,c   Gausche Hill, Marianne ^a,b,c   Ngai, Steven ^a,b   Myers, Andrew ^d   Renslo, Richard ^a,b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute   (United States)

^d Harbor UCLA Medical Center ^*

Author keywords

cholecystitis; cholelithiasis; jaundice; pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLELITHIASIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SYMPTOMATIC CHOLELITHIASIS; ULTRASOUND; VITAL SIGN; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; CHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIETARY FATS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; OBESITY; PANCREATITIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; VOMITING;

EID: 84855458193     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31823f5b1e     Document Type: Article

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