Admission variables predictive of gangrenous cholecystitis

American Surgeon

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1075-1078

  Falor, Ann E ^a   Zobel, Michael ^a   Kaji, Amy ^a   Neville, Angela ^a   De Virgilio, Christian ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; SODIUM;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRADYCARDIA; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GANGRENOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; HEART RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84866762598     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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