Diagnosis and management of gallbladder calculus disease

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1257-1265

  Schmidt, Malte ^a,b   Dumot, John A ^c   Soreide, Odd ^d   Sondenaa, Karl ^a,b  

^a Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^d Western Norway Regional Health Authority   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biliary clinical; Functional disorders

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CANCER RISK; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NORWAY; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SILENT GALLSTONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; GALLSTONES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84867517668     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2012.704934     Document Type: Review

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