Synchronous pyogenic liver abscess and acute cholecystitis: How to recognize it and what to do (emergency cholecystostomy followed by delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy)

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 205-213

  Costi, Renato ^a,b   Le Bian, Alban ^a   Cauchy, François ^a   Diop, Papa Saloum ^a   Carloni, Alessio ^a   Catherine, Laurence ^a   Smadja, Claude ^a  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Cholecystostomy; Delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Liver abscess; Mini invasive treatment

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GENTAMICIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLIC; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS INFECTION; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCHRONOUS PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; THERAPY DELAY; URINE RETENTION; ALGORITHM; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; WATCHFUL WAITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84857382096     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-011-1856-1     Document Type: Article

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